Dirty-Snow Goggles

When Nugget and I were setting up our fancy, impressive, high-tech new blog, we briefly considered choosing a picture of our school as the background for our various musing and misadventures. Ultimately, we decided to make a different artistic choice ("What in the world is a template? Why did our one picture turn into a million tiny ones? Hey, isn't that a button that will give us a nice pre-made picture of a book?"). However, the search for a picture of Colgate that represented our daily experience of undergraduate life proved to be enlightening.

If you were to drive up Broad Street and catch sight of Colgate tomorrow morning, you would see this:

And yet, when we were choosing a photo that captured the essence of our collegiate lives, we came up with this:

I can think of so many beautiful, perfect images from my time at Colgate: the stars over Whitnall Field on a snowy night, the bright yellow leaves on the tree outside my freshman dorm room in the fall, Hamilton decorated like a Christmas village around December, a sunny afternoon by the lake in summer. But at the end of the day, as much as college is the best four years of your life, it is also one long sleep-deprived slog. So when I'm sitting through a lecture at 8:30 AM on a Monday morning, after lugging my books home from the library at midnight the night before....

.... you can bet I'll be seeing the world through dirty-snow goggles.