2020 NH Fall/SH Spring Photo Thread (spoilers please!)

They're still not finished cleaning up from the mess left by the snowstorm last week. I took a photo of this exact spot (although seen from the opposite side of where that truck is standing), of the fallen over trees and broken branches, in my snow storm album from Nov 19th.


I've taken quite a few photos around the campus, but I've never really showed any pictures of the university from outside campus. 


I keep forgetting how massive the campus actually is. I wonder if it's big by international standards as well. Here's a satellite view of the campus (red marker). The previous picture was taken from the blue spot on the map. The area within the red line is in and of itself pretty huge with an almost constant diameter of 800-900m. But if you factor in the university hospital that's tightly integrated with the campus (yellow marker), it's even more massive. Lots of different university programs have their classes around the hospital, so it kinda should count. There's a nice football field there as a size reference. There's also a separate campus for art and architecture etc. that's located 1.5km away in the city center. So what do you think? Is this actually a large university, or is it just large in relation to Umeå's otherwise very small size? 34k students and 4k employees. And the population of Umeå urban area and municipality are 90k/130k.


The only tunnel in Umeå, which has started to piss me off now that I live right outside its eastern entrance, because literally every single motorcyclist and BMW driver puts the pedal to the metal once they're inside it, and I never had even the remotes idea of how LOUD it can actually sound. I really hope they could put some speed cameras inside the tunnel or something like that because it's honestly quite insane how loud that tunnel can be sometimes. I don't think drivers even realize how much noise they're actually making towards the people living close to the tunnels; if none, except for the extreme assholes, would even think about doing it.


It rained the whole day yesterday, and I was pretty worried the snow wouldn't completely melt, leaving an icy mess closest to the ground that potentially could last all the way into April. But luckily, the snow did manage to melt pretty much completely (apart from snow heaps and walls from shoveling, and on some north-facing slopes).


Ok, I mean, we're not completely rid of the snow, but at least everything isn't covered by an icy mess.


Those new and fancy riverside "highrises" really do look quite nice, at least with the sun setting in the perfect angle. The purple backside walls are a bit odd I guess but whatever.

My best friend has moved to Falun to study, but came up for the weekend, so we went and had a fika downtown.


The new library and hotel. Supposed to look like a birch.


Nice sunset.

Decided to take a dip in the lake. It was a little nippy. 

Noice





Wtf is this random subtropical shit about?





Much better







Last bout of color





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Full overcast subpolar cold