The Four Seasons - Fall

Unlike Vivaldi's best-known works, our life in Chicago starts in Autumn (quarter). Though we cannot boast of Fall colours like Arkansas or New York (or many others), we can boast of the most out-of-place pink-coloured building in the world:

The Max Palevsky dorm, next to the tennis courts. The unparallelled Regenstein Library (which is how every other building on campus is coloured) stands in the background.

And yet, the most significant monument on campus is the small, dark insignificant-looking one in between. That is the memorial for the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction - carried out by Enrico Fermi's team on December 2, 1942. Right here on campus.

The University Hospitals face some magnificent expanses in between the Midway Plaisance. Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken is what I remembered when I first walked there - I had not taken that road for my first four years in Chicago!














Old Father Time gets older every fifteen minutes - and we are the ones for whom this bell tolls:

The Rockefeller Chapel, one of a few on campus. Across the road is the most fantastic student-run Film Society in existence. Doc Films screens at least two movies (or one movie twice) every day of every quarter, in a theater that seats maybe a thousand. They've shown films from Hitchcock to Kurosawa, Capra to (Satyajit) Ray. And those are just four of the molecules, on the tip of the iceberg.