One evening during finals week at the very end of my freshman year, word spread around campus that the northern lights fixing to be visible within the next hour or two. This happens every few months, with a picture or two from somewhere nearby making rounds. However, as campus is very well lit, the closest easily accessible dark location is the observatory in the woods next to Orchard Hill.

I went with a group on the long walk across campus in the middle of the night to hopefully see the lights. Alas, despite much hope and patience we had, whether anything would have been visible or not was made moot by the dense cloud cover. This was my view taken near the end at 12:34.