Thursday night I was walking back from the wardroom at the Navy office after a long night of studying, and I came across  a couple of front-end loaders and a dump truck getting snow to haul off. I thought to myself how sad it is that we have to pay companies to come and haul off our snow so we can have normal operations, haha.

I was studying in the library yesterday for my calculus midterm, and on my way back down from the fourth floor I noticed the elevator button (the one you push to beckon the elevator, not the buttons inside the elevator) had the wrong labels. You have to press the "door open" button to go up and the "door close" button to go down. I wonder if it has been this way since the library was built a long time ago... :

I really enjoy studying in the main library because it's a good mix of places to get lost and reading rooms that are really nice. Yesterday around 10 am I decided to use a reading room since it wasn't crowded...it's one of the more aesthetically pleasing places to study at Yale: 

And of course, I'm guilty of taking a selfie so I could show my girlfriend what the rest of the room looked like:

While on the topic of selfies, I might as well point out how I have been refusing a haircut while up here. I made the decision to only get my hair cut when in Georgia. I have found innumerable deficiencies among all three barber shops up here, so I just wait until I get home to get haircuts now. I'm not very picky when it comes to haircuts, but the barbers up here will ask you what you want, you tell them, and then they give you the haircut they want to give you and disregard everything you told them. I have the longest hair in the unit, and our Staff Sergeant (USMC drill instructor) must cringe when he sees my hair. But hey, it's still within Navy grooming regulations so there's not much to do about it. Two more weeks until a haircut!