A Day in the Life (Picture Version)

A disclaimer since this post has been brewing for awhile. As of approximately 20 minutes ago, this "a day in the life" is no longer valid. Why? Because this M1 is done for the semester!!!

This edition of "a day in the life" is going to be mostly pictures. The snow got me in a picture taking mood last week.

Destination: UIC-COM

View from my roof. The tower way in the background amongst the snow is where I'm trying to get to. Hooray for UIC.

Home Sweet Home

The taller building to the left of the light post/parking sign is my building. I'll be seeing it later in the day. Much later.

Side Street

Yay for one of my side streets! All the residential roads take a back seat to clearing out the arterial roads. Clearly, they're still being worked on.

Polk and Ashland

Here's one of those main roads I was talking about. Anyway, I'm coming up on the Illinois Medical District. The tall building in the background is UIC's Clinical Sciences North and is the tower that I mentioned from the roof of my building. It's about a block east of the College of Medicine. The tan/white bridge structure over the road in the background is the Polk L stop - one of two ways I get to downtown.

Polk and Wood Streets

Clinical Sciences North is on the left of the pic. The COM includes the tower in the background. Cook County Hospital is the building in the right background, about a block away. This area's also where this M1 partook in a snowball ambush by nightfall. Hey - we need study breaks too.

Heading Downtown

This is from a bridge a few blocks from my place. So there's the Eisenhower Expressway down below. In the median runs the Blue Line and the other of the two L stations I hop on for downtown. Unfortunately, I'm usually heading downtown to study.

Ramping

If you look at the last pic, you'll see that there are two ramps heading down to the L platform. Aforementioned ramp.

Jackson/Dearborn Station

Here's the subway stop I get off at when I'm heading to Depaul. It leaves me about two blocks away from their campus. Jackson is definitely one of the nicer and newer stations in Chicago's subways.

Dearborn Street

Dearborn Street looking north. Here's one of the exits from the Jackson station. I think that the Red Line's and Jackson's subway entrances look pretty nice - definitely cleaner and more modern than some of the other ones.

Jackson and State Streets

The building behind Walgreens and above the Barnes and Noble is Depaul's Loop campus. If I'm not around the UIC area, there's a good chance you can find me around this part of town. The Garrett's popcorn shop on the left has some pretty good popcorn for sale - if you like caramel or cheese popcorn.

Adams and Wabash

The bridges over the street in the background are the Adams/Wabash L station. If I'm heading directly to or from UIC, this is the L station I hop on to/off from. The Pink Line then leaves me about two blocks from the COM building and right across the street from our library.

Eisenhower/Loop, Night Version

This is usually the scene if I'm heading home from downtown. Unfortunately, I'm heading to my study group.

So that's a typical day for me in terms of moving about. No pics of classrooms or libraries, because I'd feel kinda weird busting out a camera for those. I said earlier that I was in a picture taking mood last week, and as such I ended up snapping a few pictures.

~Roosevelt and Michigan

Looking north across Grant Park.

From Adler Planetarium

From Shedd Aquarium