At the moment, I'm in one of the main Dartmouth libraries overlooking a vast field covered in a thin layer of snow. The trees are just dead brown twigs stuck into the earth at regular intervals. Today was quite idyllic. I slept in at the fancy Hanover Inn (somehow I managed to get a roomy, luxurious single that overlooks the campus, especially the tall clock tower) and went out to brunch with a pair of current graduate students at the local Lou's Bakery. Afterwards I roamed downtown Hanover which only includes a few stores and a giant GAP. Apparently, the locals allowed that chain store to stay because the guy who started the GAP graduated from Dartmouth.
Yesterday I had interviews and after dinner I just went to bed. I was tired because of the time difference, but I'm not as sick as a couple days ago. I think the cold weather is doing me some good. The other prospectives went to a nearby bar and said they witnessed the break-up of a fight. Hm.
The architecture at Dartmouth is a cross between colonial and neo-classical. Everything is huge on the outside. The undergraduate dorms are very aesthetically pleasing. But I guess that's the case when you have a bunch of alumni endowing an Ivy League school. There was one ugly building on campus though that was pointed out during the campus tour. It looked like a dark gray morgue. Supposedly it's for a secret society and you can't get in unless you have their password. But why call it a secret society when their building is in plain view on a major road?
I'm going to take off and wander around the rest of campus for a while. See you later.
