The Windy City

After struggling with tons of readings and assignments, the fall break finally arrived. Some travel off the forest is necessary. Except poor 1Ls mostly travelling between the Law Library and their living room, upperclass students travel a bit farther^^ For me my short trip begins at the windy city.

The Metro

After landing in the ORD airport, i found the way to take a metro to downtown! A METRO! Wait a minute, what’s so special about a metro system? Ladies and gentlemen, you gotta know that after spending abour 2 months in a forest, where you can barely survive without a car (and i dont have a car). You can’t imagine how excited I was when I finally saw a public transportation depites the facts that it’s super old and not that clean. (I highly recommend everyone to visit Taipei’s metro, super clean, best one I’ve ever visited)

The Architecture

Chicago is famous about its skyline and great architectures. I enjoy the Chicago Tribune Building, the John Hancock Tower (Great night panorama scene), the City Hall. (Again I was probably too excited to see so many high buildings in a real city and hence probably biased) As a huge baseball fan, i also visited one of the oldest ballpark in the US, the Wrigley Field. The Cubbies are our biggest rival (Go Cardinals!), but it feels good to hang around the traditional place with Cards cap on my head^^

Walking along the lake side under sunshine

I think I can claim myslef “the sunny buy.” Chicago was cold b4 I arrive, and had a very early heavy snow after i left the town (similiar situation happened in Philly and Durham, no snows but definitely get much warmer and sunny when I arrive). It’s so great to walk in the lake side and enjoy the sunlights. Totally relax and throw all memorandum away to the skyblue. I guess I did not really feel the windy part of the City this time, will try to figure that out some other time^^

U of Chicago

I visted my firends studying at Chicago Law, and met a Duke alumni there. We enjoyed nice dinner and talk. Chicago Law is one of my favorite law schools in the US. Richard Posner, Cass Sunstein and many other renowned legal scholars are there. Law and economics is one of their best and i am really interested in this field.

Northwestern

I also visted my college classmate at NW. Compares to U of Chicago, NW locates in a richer community. Campus is nice but buildings are a bit normal. I took a look at the famous Kellog School, a pity that i can’t visited it inside.

The Magnificent Mile

Its name says all. The Magnificent Mile is a great avenue with lots of great place to shop. A big Nike Town, a fancy Apple House, and many department stores and brandnames here, along with the John Hancock Tower standing in front of the avenue while it goes all the way down to the Chicago River. It ain’t the Champs-Elysées, but i definitely love the atsmophere here as well. However I don’t dare to stay for too long, or my green bills will all leave me for good.

Chicago kinda reminds me what a City look like before heading back to the forest for more studying. Next time here i will take the cruise into the River and the Lake, and hopefully get to feel the chilling windy part of the City.

Blue Devils Fever

The season hasn’t begun yet, however the fever is already spreaded out. Basketball campout is probably one of the crazist events for graduate students & professional students. All we want is the season ticket to the Cameron Stadium, the access to the madness!

Thirty-Six Hours Marathon

The campout is like a festival and big party. All campers must be presented during random check (1 absence allowed this year) in order to be eligible to enter the lottery. People run from the tents and RV to the checkpoints after the whistle. More than 25 whistles will make you feel nuts in the 36-hr span. You will see camper cursing with their drunken body and sleepy eyes. Dude, party is just on!

Big Festival

Endless alcohols ( We suppose all grad students are over 21, go and drink!), Beer-pong (A cool American game, but I consider the purpose of the game is to drink all beers), dancing, pokering, BBQing, sleepless. Yes, party all nite long.

Best Tent!

I am so lucky to team with my Japanese coleagues, they are so organized. Without question, our tent should be honored The Best Tent @ 2006 Campout. Lawyers can’t simply state the conclusion with no reasoning. We have the best food, Japanese shabu shabu, Well prepared BBQ, Thai food, Korean Food. We also have endless alcohol, American beers, French Redwine, Japanese Sake. For recreation, we have full set of Slam Dunk, boardgames and poker games. All law students visited this tent and had great chats. This tent deserves the award, and I don’t expect any dissenting opinion here.

Courtesy to Nori, you really organized a wonderful campout team!

Season Tickets

Our team has an agreement to share all tickets won (I told you we are very organized). We won 7 out of 20 members (it’s about average winning rate). Another fight will be for the Duke-UNC ticket, that will be another story…