John Harvard on ice

I particularly like how even though the statue is covered in snow, the "lucky" foot is still visible!

But you still can't park your car!

A Wampanoag wetu on Harvard Yard. This traditional dome-shape dwelling of the local Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe was built by Native American students close to the original site of Harvard's Indian College, which dates back to the 17th century.

The wetu is part of Harvard University’s annual Arts First, a four-day student arts festival each year during the first week of May.

Raiders of the Lost Yard

Harvard University's Peabody Museum is conducting some fieldwork in the Yard, on the presumed 17th-Century site of the Harvard Indian College.

Even a broken cliche is right two times a year

Most of the time you can't "Pahk Your Cah in Hahvahd Yahd", but they make exceptions to move the students in and out at the beginning and end of the academic year...

No time to photoblog even!

This is a picture I snapped of Harvard Yard this morning that I completely failed to post to the blog, for no sooner had I arrived for work than I was sucked into a vortex of student training that only just spit me out a little while ago. I guess it's only appropriate, though, that I find myself in a frenzy of activity as the Fall semester approaches and signs of student life return to the Yard. Classes won't start in earnest here at Harvard until the end of September, but already the atmosphere has changed to a distinctly autumn-like feel. Even the morning light has a crisper twinkle to it as it streams through the picturesque campus' venerable trees and the ubiquitous haze of midsummer morning grows less and less with every passing day. Maybe I'm more mindful of this seasonal change because the arrival of our new boss next week heralds myriad other changes in its wake, ones which I can only hint at right now with a nod, a wink, and an enigmatic smile...