August 05, 2003
Life and the Triangle
Last Sunday afternoon, I decided to pay a visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham. That place is awesome - plenty of nice places to walk or to sit and read and ponder about Darwin's theory of evolution. It's also free.
Lately I've been finding quite a few gems like that in the Triangle. You just have to know where to look.
While I was in the area, I decided to scope out Duke's campus, as that was something that I wanted to do before I left town. The verdict: The chapel and the area immediately around the chapel are fucking *amazing*. The architecture there is absolutely beautiful. However, other than that I wasn't all that impressed with the campus as a whole. Outside of the chapel area, it seemed more like a series of isolated buildings with parking lots than an actual campus. I think that it would be a good place to go for grad school, but probably not for undergrad.
After my tour of the three major universities in the Triangle, I still think that I like UNC's the best overall.
In other news, I finished reading Solaris. I really liked it a lot. Initially, at parts I thought that it dragged a bit with long fictional scientific explainations of made-up formations in the Ocean, however after finishing the enire book, I see why those parts were necessary to the theme of Science contrasted with love and the human emotion. I especially liked the last chapter a lot. I think that it framed the whole book very well. Highly recommended.
I have started reading the second Harry Potter book: The Chamber of Secrets, and it has really pulled me in so far.
Ahh... less than two weeks remain of my stay down here.
In General
Posted by Josh Staiger at 10:57 PM