Cornell

At Cornell to interview at the Johnson School (named after Johnson of SC Johnson, a family company, not Johnson & Johnson, a pharma company) last weekend. There are few places in the continental US that are further from San Diego than Ithaca (although Rochester, where I'm headed next weekend, is one of them). They had 6 feet of snow the previous week, but by the time I got there it was mostly sunny and a warm 20F.

This is Sage Hall, which is the B-School building. It used to be a women's dormitory (the first in the US), then an office building. Then they gutted it, sandblasted the outside, and filled it full of those classrooms with the U-shaped seating areas. In the center of the building is a glassed-in three story atrium.
This is a picture that proves that there was lots of snow. I think the building on the right is a library. In the valley below you can see what I believe is Lake Cayuga.Berkeley and Cornell both have Campaniles. This is Cornell's. If you ever have to choose between the two in a police lineup, I'll let you in on a secret - Berkeley's is the one without snow.

Of course the best part of visiting all these places is coming back home: