Boston - MIT and Harvard

today was our 2nd full day in boston, massachusetts. continuing on our whirlwind tour of the ivy leagues, we entered genius world one more time, this time onto the town of cambridge - home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

started off the day with a bottle of supercharged natural drink. 2 for $5. quite ex. but we were determined to live on biscuits for lunch.

arrived @ MIT in time for the 10.45 am campus tour. it's a pretty neat school. learnt a lot of useful (and useless) stuff abt MIT.

of cos, we had to be true to SMU.
these MIT geniuses are really engine freaks. but i love american college traditions. at MIT, there's the MIT hacks, where they do stupid things without getting caught. once, some pple climbed up to that dome and decorated it as the R2D2 when the 1st episode of starwars came out.
another time, they broughts parts and assembled a car up there, painted it to look like a policecar, put a dummy in, with a pistol and half eaten box of donuts beside him, and a parking fine on the windscreen for parking on top of the great dome. hahaha. the next day they had to call in a helicoptor to remove it, and CNN was there to record the whole thing. another time, some pple brought a working telephone up there that wouldn't stop ringing until someone went up there to pick it up. it's hilarious, and they've actually published a whole book on it, pictures and all.

walked by this room while going through one of the corridors. apparently, only 3 unis are recognised for exchange credits within a major. one of them is cambridge, the other being NUS. I dunno what the 3rd is. but... why NUS?!?! heh.


saw this in the coop.

we spent like 3 - 4 hours there i think. 2nd stop: harvard

stopped @ the famous statue of 3 lies to rub the shoe of 'john harvard' for good luck. haha, yeah right.

walked to harvard business school.

once again, we had to leave our SMU mark there, a pity there was construction going on.. we tried taking these pics so many times that ambrose no longer needs to use the multi-shot mode (:

when i saw harvard law school, i couldn't stop thinking of legally blond. heh.

it's a nice place, generally. cant believe leslie will be studying here soon.

saw a few geeks here and there. didn't find harvard as pretty as i had expected it to be, but maybe that's cos i was in princeton just a few days ago, the school which is said to have the most beautiful campus in the country... owellz. but they do have a rich history and many interesting stories to boast about.

was supposed to meet up with serene lee today, but she's out of town escaping the heat wave, which has thankfully seemed to have gone away slightly. the wind is actually cool and not hot now. maybe i won't be drenched in sweat tonight as i sleep, tho i am still sweating now.

darn YMCA hostel room. no air-con OR fan.

we're leaving boston first thing in the morning tomm, taking the chinatown bus to new york - the last league of the great united states adventure. for the 1st time in a while, we wont be driving across the states, dunno how we're gonna handle our luggage also.

not sure if there'll be wireless there. if not, i'll be home real soon. 4 more days.

after 11 states, and the heat, i wanna go home.