My visit to Reed

I love Reedies. I rode in from the Steele side, and drawn into the sidewalk was a chemical drawing of psilocin. Not even psilocybin, but the dephosphorylated, bioactive psilocin. How geekarifically specific! There were some other chemical drawings too, but I the sidewalk was pretty worn and I couldn't tell what they were. I think one might have been another tryptamine though.

I talked to the registrar, financial aid, and business affairs. The registrar took a couple of classes off my transfer credit (Reed doesn't have a WGS department, and Phys 162 hardly counts as physics) which dropped me down to freshman standing. I will have seven semesters of financial aid, which schedules me to graduate in December, but hey whatever. I can also petition for an extra semester if needed, which they say is typically granted for transfer students. In mid-August I can start talking to department secretaries about possible work-study as a lab assistant.

Then I went for a run through the campus, and read another chapter of the Iliad on the banks of the pond.

Reed itself is beautiful and so is everything east and south, so it's pretty astounding how ugly the neighborhood just north of the college is. Crossing Powell at 33rd in the hot sun is a singularly unpleasant experience, and Holgate has a bunch of nasty curves right around there - but I don't think there's any better place to cross without going out to 42nd.