A group walking down to Soda Lake, in the Carrizo Plain, during our geology trip to the San Andreas fault.

Matt Bachmann making his first steps onto the salt of Soda Lake, with Elise standing by.

Matt trudging through the salt to investigate a pillar.

Hamed ("Steve") relaxing during the field trip. This is the guy who is taking 87 units in the third term of his frosh year. (That corresponds to approximately 29 credit hours.)

Jora being silly and misusing her chair in Lower Crotch.

Matt and Geoff juggling six clubs during a carnival on prefrosh weekend.

Anthony reading in his room with Crotch on his lap. Yes, I know that's a weird name for a cat.

Whenever Linda feels stupid (which isn't that rare), she likes to enclose herself with her sweatshirt. Usually, she just puts the hood up, but on this particular occasion, she felt dense enough to have to cover her legs, too. Note the Purcell on the floor in front of her which is causing her misery.

Hamed in contemplation, staring at the whiteboard in my room.

Often (well, at least when it's not too hot out in the sun), a bunch of us decide to eat lunch outside in our house courtyard. Although we have more tables available, we usually try to squeeze as many people as possible around a single one. From the left, we have Christophe, Linda, Doug, Ben Lee (frosh), Rey, and Elise. In the background, you can see the Shed, where we watch movies and some TV.

A closer look. Here you can see some scraps of the delicious food we have to eat here at Caltech. Thank goodness I'm going to be living off-campus next year!

Linda gives us her impression of the food here.

Ben wards off the attacking camera with a banana.

Rey, feeling rather apathetic about the food, his work, and all the pain this school causes him (and all the rest of us, for that matter).

From the left, Pete, Den, and Andrew enjoy a break during a hike in the mountains ten minutes north of campus. Note the sexy Lloyd House shirts that Pete and Andrew are sporting.