One of my favorite parts of Paris was getting to live 1.5 miles from the Eiffel Tower. Every time I walked back to my apartment, I tried to spot the Eiffel Tower, as the entire NBB class only had one month to take in all of Paris. In fact, the first time I saw the Eiffel Tower was around midnight. I cannot describe how magnificent the flickering of the lights looked. I took several pictures of the tower, but I do not think anything could do the Eiffel Tower any justice. I could not believe what I was seeing, and later on, after thinking about how tall and detailed the tower looked, I thought about how our brains reconstruct our visual world. Our rods and cones actually process the signals they receive and then interpret this information. I wondered if I took in all the detail of the tower!
