Fall Break, and a few college visits

[Nannan]

October.
It is the most dreaded month for a senior with high goals.
For in this solitary month, he must finish his college apps that he has been procrastinating with for the past four years...

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"note, images are supposed to auto-resize, sometimes you must hit the refresh button three times for this to take effect on every picture"


My journey starts at a train station, I am in the town of New Haven, Connecticut, but there is nothing so see yet. I hop on the train the next day; 2 hours and 38 dollars later, I arrive at the Big Apple - NY city.


Though we've all seen pictures of the NY skyline, we're not exposed to the minute details that the city has to offer. Take this innocent bley squirrel for instance, a luxury that we Texans don't see each day.


The remains of 9/11: an empty void, and an unuseful amount of deranged witnesses of the tragedy making a living sharing their hyperboles.


The site of Washington's inaugural address located on Wall St., but did y'all know that he's the first president of the U.S.?


Here is a tribute to world peace, quite an ironic statue at first glance. It's history is maudlin enough, for this piece of art has survived the collapse of the Twin Towers as shown by those conspicuous scars. The green plaque reads: "every year, millions of unsuspicious tourists have wasted a minute of their lives reading the useless text on this sign".


More cheap b@stards trying to make a living


A peaceful reflection on la mar. For those of you who will continue to seek my company in times to come, you may want to bookmark this link.


Central Park, the only piece of green in this waste of a city, till this day I am still unsure of that excess green in the creek.

[Nannan]

I'm back in New Haven, quite a steep contrast of land, don't you think? It seems a marshy place to live, but it's actually the home of the pretentious Yale University.


Yale...
*ques gospel choir on a high note*
...the place for the high class, the sharp intellectuals, the eclectic indulgers, who all happen to be GPA whores.
GPA- a system of measuring academic progress.


The tower in the background houses 4 million volumes of books.


The library of rare books, whose walls are made of inch-thin marble, so that just the right amount and type of light can shine on these sacred scrolls. This building contains the Guntenberg Bible, which, mentioned in a LEGO forum inspires no hope of amusement.

[Nannan]

On the road of life, one must make many stops. Welcome to Enfield, home of the LEGO industrial complex.


Ironically, the HQ is not located on LEGO way.


Here it is, not much of a sight for the worlds most prestigious toy company.


Four flags, with the last being the red flag of communi-ty of LEGO. Bricks if you guess the rest of the 3 flags.


Ah, I'm so sad! My expression burnt away by the scorching sun!


You ******* be glad that my camera had 12X zoom, otherwise you would've not seen this exclusive poster that sits in the offlimit halls.


Again, countless anticipating visitors have wasted a minute of their lives reading the useless text on this sign.

I'm sure there are more splendors tucked away in the areas that are off limits. For now, you and I can only imagine the orgy at the back room of the buildings.

[Nannan]

The next college on my list is tucked in a peaceful town in the deep woods of Massachusetts, or MA for short.


The drive through the virgin hills untainted by the modern world and it's deadly snares.


In all deep philosophical expressions, the speakers are always nonchalant about punctuation marks. The same holds true for n00bs, what an irony.


Speaking of irony, behold the ironic columns (pun intended).


"A long time ago on the continent of Aranna, the once magnificent Empire of Stars had crumbled into oblivion, paralyzed by it's [sic] (to further prove my point mentioned above) own power-hungry, and towns asunder by an ancient, merciless evil..."


The jungle gym, where souls can spend an eternity in these comfortable, multi-level studying quarters.

Alas, bricks for you if you can guess the name of this college.

[Nannan]

Next, Swarthmore (say that three times), located in Penn's woods.


This collge is also a nationaly renowned arboretum. The school in the garden, what a novel concept.




Point out an incongruity in this picture and receive bricks.


A gathering place for many groups on campus:
7:00a.m.- Christian breakfast discussion groups
9:00a.m.- Daydreamers
12:00p.m.- Outcasts from the cafeteria
1:00p.m.- Mexicans, and those who still take siestas
4:39p.m.- Secret azn men
6:00p.m.- Outcasts from the cafeteria
7:00p.m.- Classical concert
9:00p.m.- Various study groups
11:00p.m.- Various frustrated study groups
1:00a.m.- Next-day test-takers
3:00a.m.- Moans and robot sex music
6:59a.m.- Members of the Christian breakfast group kick off dozers from the previous night before beginning the day anew.

[Nannan]

It's time to go home.


I take a last picture of the beautiful New England fall as I shed a pristine teardrop as a token of my having been there to see such supernal beauty.


The great divide. Bricks again if you guess what it is.


I tried to take a nightshot of my town after waking up from the flight. Looking at the result, I knew that the drink at the Philadelphia pub had someting in it. Damn those seducers, good thing I left on time.

[Nannan]

But my trip is not over yet. Here in TX we have our own pride and joy: Rice, mmm.


The founder of Rice University, whose ashes are buried under this statue, making the 3300 acre campus the largest private cemetary on earth.


A tribute to artistic geniuses, creative minds, and those who give a ****.


Instead of bley squirrels, we Texans see red ones, incredibly rotund red ones. Here on a student populated area, the squirrels live by posing for pictures to get a bite of food.


A piece of the Berlin Wall, somehow the political science department cared enough about Nazi-Germany to import this slab of concrete.


Rice's school colors are blue and white; some whimsical artist expolited this and painted all fire hydrants in the appropriate shades to look like naked smurfs.


I will not expound on the stupidity of this situation. If you study this picture, you will inevitably exhort a laugh.


Simply a gallery filler, bricks to you for telling me what it is.


You, the viewer, have vicariously lived another chapter of my epic journey of life. I wish you walk away an inspired soul, hoping to make a difference in the world (no matter how pessimistic you are) one dingy dump at a time.

[Steven329]

I see you had been to NYC. Great place yes?
You were a hour a way from me.

[SquirKim]

Very nice pictures Nannan. You have yet again proven yourself to be a very uh...interesting person.

[RSP]

Wait a minute, I thought the Berlin Wall was seperating Communist Germany from West Germany, not having anything to do with Nazism. Hooray for squirrels.

[Nannan]

rsp said:

Wait a minute, I thought the Berlin Wall was seperating Communist Germany from West Germany, not having anything to do with Nazism. Hooray for squirrels.

He-he, occationaly I give the slip...just to see if people are paying attention. In this case you did! +3 bricks for reading my diary.

[Paddy <3 Morphosis]

I was gonna say "Nazi Germany? I thought it was the damn commies!" Of course, I am about 3 weeks too late

I made two college visits:

Cal Poly
UC Berkeley

My sister is doing the whole college visits thing right. Me? I don't really care. I find visits a waste of time if there's nothing else to do.