When I created my Top 200 Photos feature, this was #5: now it’s:

The #9 photo was:

and now it is: which used to be #7

Originally, my #12 photo was: and now it’s: which was originally #9.  This photo, which was once my most viewed photo continues its slow descent.

The previous 15th most viewed photo was:

and now it’s:

which has dropped from #12

Cornell once again for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #25 is:

Once again, it’s the Pre-Dragon Day Runners previously featured here(link).

Winter and Math in this Top 200 Photo

photo #51 is:

I’ve always loved how trees demonstrate fractals and I think that’s almost nothing so beautiful during the winder as a tree covered in a small bit of snow. It really brings out the structure of the branches and makes it easier to notice them.

A return to Cornell for this Top 200 Photo

photo #81 is:

This is another panorama from Cornell. This is on Libe Slope, where Slope Day takes place. It is also climbed by nearly every upperclassman living on West Campus or beyond. Engineering students can avoid climbing it most of time as most of their classes are in the Engineering Quad which is south of West Campus. You just need to walk the circumference of the slope which isn’t nearly as steep. It is NO FUN walking up Libe Slope when it’s recently snowed and the university hasn’t cleared the walkways yet.

Once again a trip to Cornell during the winter for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #96 is:

This photo was taken during my freshman year with my brand new digital camera. That was actually a very mild winter. So mild, in fact, that my cross country skiing class became a hiking class. It did NOT prepare me for the rest of my time at Cornell. This dorm, where I stayed my freshman year, was brand new that year. It actually had air conditioning!

Staying at Cornell and adding a bit of celebrity for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #107 is:

Bill Nye got his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. In an example of the awesome professors you can have at Cornell - one of his professors was Carl Sagan! Cornell has a program that invites alumni to come back once a semester and teach a class for a day. Here Bill Nye was teaching my Physics 213 class. My wife had alumni and former attorney general Janet Reno teach one of her classes. Anyway, I knew Bil Nye both from his appearances at the end of the animated Back to the Future show and from his show Bill Nye the Science guy, which I used to watch religiously.

And we bounce right back to Cornell for today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #108 is:

It’s a shame that we go to school in the winter instead of the summer. I know it has to do with our rural past and having to help out in the farm, but it’s extra annoying at Cornell. Summer is really the best time to be there. It’s so pleasant and awesome. The campus is huge and has lots of greenery and it just feel so much better to be there during the summer. I think Cornell should be the first northern university to buck the trend and have school during the summer and no school during the winter.