edinburgh/lazy scotsmen
went into edinburgh yesterday because the "brown/cornell/penn UK" lady was there. i took the train over there, takes about an hour. there are signs all over the train telling passengers to more or less not punch the conductors, i'm not surpised that's a problem here.
edinburgh is a very pretty city, much more so than glasgow. it's a medieval city so all the streets are strangely built and theres a series of alley ways that people walk through. it's also much more of a touristy city than glasgow, there are so many scottish gift shops there and at night the streets were deader than midnight in downtown providence.
turns out the other brown guy in glasgow is living with the matts next year, seems odd we never met before this.
in the picture you can see edinburgh castle on the other side of the city, it's the thing on the hill. it was sunny and clear when i arrived about 1:30 but when we were leaving a museum around 3:30 it all of a sudden began to snow intensely. it did so on and off for the rest of the night here in glasgow too so now the ground is covered with a slush that is slowly turning brown.
i'm still trying to navigate my way through the academics here. it seems people don't work very hard, an impression most americans i've talked to have as well. all the third years (except the internationals like me, we have to do something else) have to do outside their studio practice is research and write a 3000 word essay on a topic of their choice. thats about 6 pages, right? and its not like they're spending all their time in the studio, most seem to spend only a few hours a day there.
i had to go out and buy some books the other day because i was getting sick of sitting around watching tv and going to the pub all the time after the studio and library closed.
i got this book about a volcano that exploded in 1880-something, a fiction about some funny kid in texas and "the davinci code", i figure i should read that one just to see if it's as enrapturing as people make it out to be.
edinburgh is a very pretty city, much more so than glasgow. it's a medieval city so all the streets are strangely built and theres a series of alley ways that people walk through. it's also much more of a touristy city than glasgow, there are so many scottish gift shops there and at night the streets were deader than midnight in downtown providence.
turns out the other brown guy in glasgow is living with the matts next year, seems odd we never met before this.
in the picture you can see edinburgh castle on the other side of the city, it's the thing on the hill. it was sunny and clear when i arrived about 1:30 but when we were leaving a museum around 3:30 it all of a sudden began to snow intensely. it did so on and off for the rest of the night here in glasgow too so now the ground is covered with a slush that is slowly turning brown.
i'm still trying to navigate my way through the academics here. it seems people don't work very hard, an impression most americans i've talked to have as well. all the third years (except the internationals like me, we have to do something else) have to do outside their studio practice is research and write a 3000 word essay on a topic of their choice. thats about 6 pages, right? and its not like they're spending all their time in the studio, most seem to spend only a few hours a day there.
i had to go out and buy some books the other day because i was getting sick of sitting around watching tv and going to the pub all the time after the studio and library closed.
i got this book about a volcano that exploded in 1880-something, a fiction about some funny kid in texas and "the davinci code", i figure i should read that one just to see if it's as enrapturing as people make it out to be.
posted by nathan at 2:20 PM
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