More Rain - This Time at Northwestern

Friday morning, here we are at Northwestern. More rain, but a great looking campus with a ton of programs. One of the treats was running into Patti Soskin and Maddy on this tour.

Northwestern is right on Lake Michigan, and I can only imagine what a joy that must me when the weather is hot.

A birding highlight for the trip was seeing a ruby crowned kinglit on the fill land that the University has built into Lake Michigan. There science and math facility is on this land, as is the athletic facility.

One thing I learned is that Northwestern is the only private college in the Big Ten. You have to admire a school of eight thousand undergraduates slugging it out with schools like Ohio State and Madison that take more than four times as many students.

The arch was donated to the school in 1993 by the retiring head of school.

The final picture is of one of the libraries on campus. It is supposed to look like books flying off the shelf. In a moment it really started to rain hard here, and then we went down to the lake front to see the north part of campus.