Tuesday 5 August 2008

Around campus

The Berkeley campus is huge and lovely. The town slopes up from the edge of the Bay, and the campus starts right where it hits the mountains. It's wooded and shady, packed with massive classical style buildings. Thankfully the trees hide the worst excesses, and happy hardworking students wander around smiling. The student uniform is a branded item of clothing and a laptop. Non-branded people are usually professors, so I've been trying to immitate them. People in silly hats are tree sitters.



Trees, students, academic excellence.



Who says Americans don't do sarcasm?



The campus clock. You could be in Birmingham (if you closed your eyes and imagined cold, drizzly weather).



Mock-Persian architecture of the bacteriology building. I don't even know what bacteriology is!

Looking down on part of the business school. Not hard to see where all those fees go.