I’ll post Philly pics tomorrow. I apologize again for the lame cell phone pictures.
This was the library/waiting room on the ground floor of the building I taught in. My building was East Pyne, and it was gorgeous.
(You can’t see their faces, they could be anybody.)
Thats my TA up at the front of the room. You probably can’t tell unless you squint your eyes, but this was during one of our many Heidegger lectures. You can just make out ready-to-hand and present-at-hand on the right, and some stuff about Nietzsche on the left.
This was the fancy room we met the parents in on the first day. The picture doesn’t do the room justice whatsoever; it felt like walking into the UN. Each of those chairs are real leather .
Here’s some more architecture from Princeton:
Drinking on campus was sparse, and we had to make due with what was around. I visited two local bars, one pricey brewery called Triumph:
And one local pub called Ivy Inn, that was a trashy frat hang out and smelled of puke and was playing “Sweet Child of Mine” as we walked in.
And here are the infamous Tejas pictures. This was on the last Wednesday, I believe, when I finally had enough time to hang with the TAs. Tejas decided we needed a quick lesson in fencing. She fell down after each lunge, got back up, and insisted she could do it without falling. At which point she lunged again and fell back down.
I was personally hitting the Old Granddad