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We’ll start with actually chronological things… today was the first day of orientation. As part of the activities, they had us play a team-communications game. The rules of the game are: you have 1 “looker”, you have 1 “runner”, and the rest of the people on the team are “builders”. The “looker” leaves the group and goes to a secret room where s/he observes a particular structure that has already been built. The “looker” cannot leave that room, so it is the job of the “runner” to go to the “looker” and listen to his describe the structure. (The “runner” does not get to see the structure.) The “runner” then take the information over to the “builders” and relays the description from the “looker”. (The “runner” also does not get to touch any of the building pieces.)

The building blocks:

Our structure grows:

(No, our structure looked almost nothing like the original. I think the original was some kind teapot?)

And now for the random things I’ve seen around campus… in no particular order. This is the “decoration” in front of the architecture building (go figure):

Most people who have been on a college campus have seen chalkings all over the place advertising things. And most of us know that stencils and spray-on chalk are like the next big thing. But this is the first time I’ve seen multi-color chalk spray! So cool!

(I almost missed my bus taking this picture.)

Funny sign I saw at the bottom of an apartment complex. I think they were trying to get retail/restaurants to move in downstairs:

(If you can’t read it, it says: “Students above tired of eating cereal. Restaurants wanted!”)

A random cube spinning in central campus. I’m not sure what building it was in front of (although eventually I should find out):

And last but not least, this very sketchy but very well painted/decorated alleyway somewhere in downtown. Like you’re walking down this perfectly modern and clean street, and then blam, this alleyway, and then more clean/modern streets. I even ventured down this alley, but only about 100′. There’s a poem spray-painted to the ceiling of one of the archways. If you wander deeper in, you see people loitering. It’s actually kinda scary. I’m glad I went during the day. (Funny, the grad students I talked to knew about this alleyway, but nobody dared to venture down.)

And finally… I went to the BME picnic for all of us new kiddos, and I got to watch this sunset (yes, it has been photoshop-enhanced for color and contrast):