Stanford

We went out to Stanford on Saturday, it was great. I honestly don't know if i could choose between them. We spent a lot of time in the library finding all kinds of nooks and cranny's. It was enormous. It has several different wings that were build at different times so the floors don't match up very well. There was so much information there that you could never get access to online. It has three million volumes. We happened upon this set of books about sun. They were filled with hundreds of different pictures and explanations of all of the suns different states and fluctuations. But it looked as though it had just been forgotten down there (Not by the librarians of course just by the rest of the wider world). And there were enitre floors filled with just government information. Rows and rows of laws and operations and census data and who knows what else. It was staggering to see it all laid out in front of you like that. The census data especially reminded me of our happy new warrant-less wire tapping laws. Outside there are fountains everywhere, even some with people swimming in them. and unlike Denver's campus bikes are aloud to go every where because it is such a huge campus, 8180 acres. Thats about 2 students per acre. One of there science buildings was donated by bill gates just to spite a teacher who works there who failed him in a computer science class while at Harvard. There is also this fantastically beautiful church.
This is what it looked like originally but after an earthquake pulled the spire down in to the church it had to be rebuilt.
This is what is looks like to day. The coolest thing about it is that the pictures on the front is a mosaic of Jesus blessing the people. The tour guide said that it contains 22,000 colors of tile, not 22,000 tiles mind you but colors of tiles.

if you want to see a map of campus I found a cool campus/google hybrid one here: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/map/