This is the beautiful view from my desk!

 This is my common room, and since we dont have curtains, wedecided to use our flags as curtains...we now have a Canadian flag on the left window.

 This is the really pretty view of Old Campus right where my suite is.

 This is just the random arch outside my door that connects Old Campus to the rest of the world...and the crazy drivers and hobos of New Haven.

 I know it's hard to see much, but this is the furniture gallery where my furniture and American Life seminar is held every tuesday and thursday.

 This was my first day in uniform EVER. The Pic was taken at the back entrance of my residential college...Pierson College.

 And this was on September 11th, 2013...the first time I wore my summer whites. I have to say...it was really special to wear the whites for the first time on 9/11.

 This is James Madison's personal journal from the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and I was allowed to hold it and touch it and read it like any other book.

 This is a real Thomas Jefferson signature and it is in the receipt book that Jefferson kept for the Continental Congress in 1778. It is simply a national treasure, just like all the other things I got to touch and see at the Beinecke Rare Book Library. It's one of the very nice perks of Yale.

And this bad boy, my friends, is THE pen Abraham Lincoln used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. I got to touch this pen too. It was simply amazing.