A 90 degree panoramic view of the WPI quad, standing at the Higgins Labs corner, panning right from Alden, across Morgan Hall, to the Alumni Gym.
After touring the WPI campus again after seven years, I came away with three major impressions. First, WPI seemed so much smaller than I remembered it. The campus and downtown area had been my entire universe for four years - it seemed like such a large place in my memory. But years later, my perception of distance seems to have been altered by bigger campuses and long commutes.
A 90 degree panoramic view of the WPI quad, standing at the Higgins Labs corner, panning right from Alden, across Morgan Hall, to the Alumni Gym.
Second, I got the impression that WPI had become a much more comfortable place. Even putting the new campus center aside, several of the other facilities seemed to have been improved. The main campus dining hall, for example, had been refurbished from a space that resembled a parking garage to a room that could easily pass as a large restaurant. Again, my inexpensive disposable camera didn't do this room justice.
The refurbished dining hall.
Finally, it seemed to me that there were a huge number of women on campus. The WPI website's numbers claim something close to a 3:1 male:female ratio these days. A far cry from the early 1990's!
So, this concludes my little record of the trip. I hope you found it amusing!
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