This is the second level of "Dillard," section 385 (at least up to the bend), where I currently reside.  (My suite is to the immediate left outside the picture.)

This picture was taken from approximately the same place, in a direction about 75 degrees to the right.  What you are seeing, or, more accurately, what the camera is facing, is Dillard's sister dormitory complex, "Gooch."  Together they form the well-worn phrase, "Gooch and Dillard."

Upon opening the door of our suite, #308...  (The white wire you see running down from upstairs is the cable for the dorm TV.)

This nearly pitch black image (except for the lamp and tissue box) is my room.  Despite having the window open and both lights on it turns out I still should have used flash...

To the right upon entering...  As you might have gathered from the wall art, I had a rather bad experience with Collegeboxes, a student storage company...that SUCKS.

And now my other wall...  Never underestimate the value of flash photography.  You can tell a bit about the size of my room by how the posters have been cut off...

The view from my window.  That castle on the hill yonder is the Hereford Residence complex.  Residents complain that the buildings look a bit like prisons on the inside...

Also never underestimate the value of timed photography.  I got a hair cut a few days after taking this picture.

Rahul Gupta, my homie and nextdoor neighbor.  As this and the previous picture demonstrate, we in Suite 308 prefer to sit in exactly one position when being photographed.  (Actually I did this on purpose.  Also note the words on his sweatshirt--his room is the opposite of mine so I had to flip the photo.  Pretty good match, though, eh?)

James (my upstairs neighbor) had to come along and spoil the set up.  He's in a good mood, though...

The weekend before Fall Break, my good friend Jason Michelitch, formerly from my old 10th grade haunt, Yorktown High School, now at Bard College in New York, visited for an evening.  Unfortunately, I hadn't the foresight at that time to make any visual record of his ever having been here, but he did leave this drawing on my whiteboard, which, as you can see, has been visually recorded.  (As an aside, notice how CDs fit perfectly over the peepholes of our doors.)

Moving back out into the suite...  The few items of any value, actually, almost the only items in the suite at all, apart from the furniture, are in this picture, and the upturned monitor doesn't count as one of them.

The victim of Collegeboxes' wrath.  They managed to crush the bottom frame of the monitor inward (a bit hard to see, but you can tell the stand is crooked), which resultantly broke off a part of the circuit board inside, which I mailed to them.  The sticker says it all...

Looks like we were just robbed...

The eternal 8th resident (the 7th is my dead monitor) of our suite--food garbage.  Admittedly, most of it is mine...  :-P

Exiting the suite and turning to the right this time...  On the left you can see the edge of our resident deciduous forest fragment.  I saw a northern mockingbird over in front of Gooch once, but it wasn't singing...

The exit sign visible in the distance in the previous image.  This is probably one of my less respectable attempts at artistic photography.  (In retrospect I should have placed the edge of the wall in the center so that it bisected the frame and been at least three feet taller.)

This picture of me was taken by my good friend Cory McConnie (hope I spelled that right), one of my former E-School compatriots (he's still in E-School, I'm not).  Once again, I underestimated the value of flash photography.  Cory declined to be photographed.

To the left, Runck Dining Hall.  In this case, no amount of flash photography short of floodlights would make a difference.  I always thought Runck looked really cool at night.  Sadly, you will never know, unless you live here.  Maybe I should try taking a picture a bit earlier...

Runck Dining Hall in daylight.  (What better way to end than with another picture I jacked from the Housing website?)  Diners be warned, the building looks better than the food...  (Might taste better, too.)

Well that's it!
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