<p>I’ll try to get lucky and hope my one post a week goes thru without database errors. This will cover several topics:</p>
<p>a) If you are looking for a video tour of Swarthmore (like Pomona’s tour), there isn’t one. I’ll post a link to photos of all the buildings on campus if that’s what you are looking for. IMO, the **13 Students Tour **and, even better, the Admissions DVD, do a fabulous job of giving you a feel for Swarthmore. Much better, IMO, than a tour of buildings could do. The little student blurbs on the **13 Students Tour **contain the important stuff.</p>
<p>I would also spend some time exploring the videos here to get a sense of the College:</p>
<p>[Swarthmore</a> College Video](<a href=“Featured Videos :: News & Events :: Swarthmore College”>Featured Videos :: News & Events :: Swarthmore College)</p>
<p>Or check out a video of the First Year Seminar on Harry Potter at the MTV News website:</p>
<p>[‘Harry</a> Potter’ Goes To College - Movie News Story | MTV Movie News](<a href=“http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1595623/story.jhtml]'Harry”>http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1595623/story.jhtml)</p>
<p>Or, my favorite, the video of the Bathtub Debates. This event, last year, probably captures the interaction among faculty and students better than anything I’ve seen. The premise is that due to some calamity that destroys civilization, there will only be room for one professor to travel to Antartica to re-establish society and human knowledge from scratch. Who should go? A science professor (Engineering)? A humanities professor (History)? Or a Social Science professor (Economics?). The good natured ribbing among the three faculty members debating and the give and take with the massive audience of students who turned out (maybe a quarter of the entire campus!) is Swarthmore.</p>
<p>[Bathtub</a> Debates](<a href=“http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6604225517800885058]Bathtub”>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6604225517800885058)</p>
<p>The interactive campus map links to photos and descriptions of every building and some of the major gardens. Links on each page may take you to additional photos and details about what is in each building:</p>
<p>[Swarthmore</a> College: Interactive Campus Map](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/campusmap/bin/swfPage.php]Swarthmore”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/campusmap/bin/swfPage.php)</p>
<p>There are many good campus photos at flickr, but this alum has one of the better sets:</p>
<p>[afagen’s</a> slideshow on Flickr](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/afagen/sets/72157600166520922/show/with/480774476/]afagen’s”>Swarthmore College | Flickr)</p>
<p>I think this photo looking down on Wharton and Dana/Hollowell (hidden in the woods) from the top of the belltower gives a good sense of how heavily landscaped and wooded the campus is. That’s hard to full grasp until you walk around the place. You just don’t see the buildings until you are right on top of them because of all the trees.</p>
<p>[Flickr</a> Photo Download: DSCN3363.jpg](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/jere7my/265879478/sizes/o/]Flickr”>All sizes | Swarthmore: Sproul from the Bell Tower | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)</p>
<p>Or this one which shows two very large buildings, Lang Performing Arts Center on the left and Kohlberg Hall on the right just 50 feet apart, and yet both are barely noticeable from the walkway between them.</p>