School's back- well, almost. It's frosh week here on Queen's campus, also known as initiation, freshman or orientation week at other schools. Our engineering department's undergrads are putting on their usual show, in rough accordance with the school's long-standing traditions (although things are slightly more tame than they used to be in the days before senior administration was involved in the planning of festivities).

There's the hair, for starters, "EngCuts" being far beyond anything conceived of by mere mortal hairdressers:

Katy found this cute little guy- a young Thamnophis sirtalis, if I'm not mistaken- in the park this afternoon. He (well, perhaps she- it's hard to tell with snakes) was quite a co-operative model for a few macro shots.