University of Chicago Campus Pictures 10/04/2003




This is my 2-year-old dorm building, Max Palevsky. The East, Central, and West buildings are themed purple, yellow, and pink, respectively. There was a whole lot of controversy when it was built, because it's so incongruous with the rest of the university's architecture. I like it, though. I imagine it cheers up many a depressed and overworked student in the dead of winter.








Here's the Henry Moore sculpture with my dorm in the background representing the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb, set over the site of the first nuclear reaction.



The three A's of UChicago, from back to foreground: architecture, athletics, atomic science.




This is the "pit of despair." Try and reason out the weird picture. I'm looking down into this encased shaft that extends four stories down onto the hard cement floor. It's lighted on the inside. Nobody is really sure what it's purpose is, but most guess that it's reserved for some barbaric disciplinary action.




The very wide, spacious, yellow hallway to my dorm.




So here's my beautifully decorated dorm room. Note how the posters cut off in the middle of the room where my roommate's territory begins.







This is the Department 56 Halloween tree that Kristen gave me for my birthday. It resides on top of my stereo.




Our house lounge. Our house is named Rickert, which many of us agree is close enough to Ravenclaw to merit a change.




Here's the Ratner center, our brand-new incomplete athletic center. It's the first athletics facility built on campus in 68 years.





For the record, we do have a football field.



This was written on our track. One of the dangers of living on the South Side.


Some Quad-age...






The Midway, a long strip of park on the south side of campus, originally used for the 1894 World's Fair. Has ice skating rink, soccer fields, gardens, etc.








Ida Noyes Hall, where our very excellent film society screens their films.





Pick Hall, residence of the famed economy department.I think it looks like that big transportation thing that the Jawas put C3PO and R2D2 in when they're trying to sell them.


This sculpture outside Pick was done by a Socialist artist. As a slap in the face to the conservative economists here, the sculpture forms a shadow in the shape of a hammer and sickle on National Socialists' Day.


Bartlett Dining Commons, where I eat. It used to be the old Athletic Field House, before the Big 10 stadium was bulldozed to build a library.


Remnants of the field house.


I totally eat in the great hall at Hogwart's.


A cool light fixture in Bartlett.


Bond Chapel, where many weddings are held.





Rockefeller Cathedral. Our founder is James D. Rockefeller, who called the school "the best investment he ever made." Besides that one, you know, that made him rich like dirt.






Cobb Hall, humanities and social sciences.


Chicago Theological Seminary. It looked to me like that tree was trying to imitate the tower. At the base is the Seminary Co-op, a very cool bookstore.





The campus has a lot of cool doorways.





The Reynolds Club, which houses three theaters, a small dining commons, a coffee shop, several lounges, and the radio station.


The main drag, kinda. You should recognize it from the beginning of When Harry Met Sally.





The quad where I saw Jake Gyllenhaal run out of a building thirty times.


The basement window you see in the bottom right area of the picture is the window where the archaeological professor on whom Indiana Jones is based used to climb out of during office hours.


Myths aside, Chicago really does have frats. Look here and see what sort of debauchery ensued the night before.





One of the many gargoyle faces here. This guy is on most of the prospective student literature.



Boy from Illinois