This week has been hectic preparing for my second calculus exam next week. This weekend I've also got some interesting things to do: Friday afternoon I am attending a videoconference at Yale school of management with Gen. Charles Jacoby, Commander of NORTHCOM; Friday evening I'm meeting with my tutor for multivariable calculus (calculus isn't that intuitive this semester, so I got a tutor through the Math department to give me a bit more instruction); Saturday I'm working a conference for the Middle Eastern Studies department until 3, and then right after that I'm headed to the grand opening of the William Howard Taft mansion - I'm a fellow in the William Buckley program at Yale, a community of conservative thought here, and the program bought President Taft's mansion earlier this year and we are finally having the grand opening Saturday. 

I spotted these strange carvings in the archway of Yale Law School this afternoon while on an afternoon stroll: