this is where i go to school

complete with olive orchard

and 15th century villa where my art history classes will be held

and extensive gardens with statuary.

it's kind of unreal

and it's almost comical how different it is from nyu in new york.

the villa was donated to nyu in 1995 by harold actin, a british man whose family had owned the villa since 1904. the family home is now a museum and is decorated in the same manner as when the family lived there. students can tour the museum by appointment only but we're allowed to visit the gardens whenever we want so i spent the better part of an hour exploring this morning. i was the only one there so i felt like i was in my own secret garden :)