My alma matter is the University of Toronto, Canada’s largest university and one of the most beautiful campuses anywhere.

The university’s campus is just on the edge of Downtown Toronto, and is a beautiful oasis of greenspace in the middle of a concrete jungle. In the summers, I used to ride down there from Scarborough just to enjoy it. Later, when I lived downtown and walked about an hour to work each morning, I usually made it a point of cutting through the campus.

The position of the campus creates some truly odd scenes. The CN Tower juts impossingly into the Toronto skyline from just about every angle on campus, but particularly above Convocation Hall.

Con Hall is an amazing round building, and a truly bizarre one to have a class in. It seats about 2000 people in incredibly uncomfortable chairs with three levels.

The hall is frequently used for Concerts (although the Who has yet to play there…the music tends to be a bit quieter.) I once saw Sarah McLachlan there, and the concert remains one of the more unique in my life.

Physics students love their toys, and those toys require a smokestack to vent the waste - nuclear and otherwise - out of.

The physics smokestack is one of the tallest structures on campus, and sits just off of St. George street - the main campus drag.

Ventilation stacks on the Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories.

An air vent on the University College residences.

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