13 posts tagged “dorm”
My roommate Elise has three axolotls, which are neotenic tiger salamanders - basically, the vast majority of axolotls never metamorphose, instead spending their entire lives underwater. 'Lotl genetics are pretty fascinating; Elise has a melanoid, a golden albino, and a wild type with a special gene that makes it glow under blacklight.
This is Ansel, the melanoid. He's easiest to get pictures of, mainly because his tank is the only one with an overhead light:
The first Friday of September happened this week, which means art walk! I set up some things inside the Porteous building. It was not terribly busy and I didn't sell much, but I got a lot of interest and some people took business cards. Also, my roommate Elise and I baked lemon cream cupcakes and sold those. Here's a photo of the batter, made using the Nikon D70 I'm borrowing from the school:
I happened to wake up early a few nights ago and I caught a beautiful sunrise. As a counterpart to the sunset photo I posted recently, here it is:
Here's a nice picture I took from my window the other day:
Also, I managed to get most of the rust off my keys. Hooray!
I'm back at MECA now, meeting all the new people and waiting for classes to start (Tuesday). I have a nice sunny single room on the top/fifth floor of the dorms. Here are a couple photos of my view, which is a lot more exciting than it was last term... I can even see the ocean!
My spring break was last week, and I (finally!) had the opportunity to make a trip back to Bennington. I took LOTS of photos, including some from the train ride each way. (Tragically, I did not manage to get any images of the BISON FARM we passed by somewhere in rural New York.)
I'm going to start by posting some photos of the "New Houses," the three architecturally-acclaimed buildings that make up the upper half of third street. Most of my friends now live in these houses, so I spent a lot of time in them while I was visiting... except for the third, Paris-Borden, which is one of the two on-campus residences I've never even entered. That's out of eighteen, people.
This is First Street, also known as "The Street On Which I Have Not Lived." It looks a lot like Second Street, which was actually constructed first.
Show us your pets.
Submitted by Prakash Daniel.
Gladly! Here's Ruffles again... from a different angle this time.
Of course, I'm not allowed pets here at Bennington. This is about the closest I've got:
A while back (while there was no internet in my house) there was a Vox Hunt asking about refrigerator contents. Well, I took a picture:
There are three residential streets on campus. First and Second are home to the 12 colonial houses, an example of which can be seen here. These houses are beautiful and old, dating back to the founding of the college (the Second Street houses, counterintuitively, were built first). I live on Third Street, home to three very new dorms, and three "milk crate" houses built in the 1970's. I live in one of the latter (picture from about a month ago):
