Boston!

Boston was pretty amazing. It's such a great place. I've never been a city person - I could live in one, but I'd much prefer to be in the suburbs. I could revise that for Boston though. It's busy enough, but not ridiculously crowded. In any case, it's amazing.

It was super awesome seeing Pikatu again! Rory and I grabbed lunch when we got in on Friday and he met up with us and took us to get cannolis after. Never had one before, but they're absolutely delicious. Super rich and I can't imagine eating more than the half I did, but they're pretty scrumptious. Wandered around for a bit, then we headed back and played the most ridiculously sketchy game of cutthroat ever. The cue and I think a 7 were missing, so we took out the 15 and used the 5 as a cue ball. Except we couldn't form a triangle or diamond so we had this awkward 2-3-4-3 setup going on for the pool balls. It was super fun though. Went to a pretty amazing sushi place for dinner. I have to say, cities do own in terms of delicious food. =] Watched the Hobbit afterward, but Eric had to leave about 20 minutes in since he had baseball practice the next morning.

Woke up around 7:45, said bye to Eric, and wandered over to Harvard Square and Park Street with Rory. It's crazy to think that the last time I was at MIT or Harvard was college visits more than a year ago. Just wow. It seemed so close but a year isn't a short period of time... In any case, we really just strolled most of the time. Boston's an amazing place to just wander... There's enough to see that you never really feel bored, but it's not so busy and hectic that you feel the need to be heading somewhere. Walked a bit in the park and chilled in the Barnes&Noble at Emerson. Met up with Eric at CPK for lunch - love that place! Grabbed some boba (it's been so long since I had actual, legit boba!) and headed back to MIT. Packed up and got ready to go, and played a few more games of sketchy pool before we actually had to go.

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We swapped rooms today! Well technically people started yesterday - I came back to a surprisingly messy common room. Ah well, everything's done now. On the bottom bunk in the corner room! It's actually pretty cozy - I like it. It'll take a bit of adjusting, but not much. Hung origami from the edges of the bunk, so it dangles down in like a little fort thing. Plus we moved the beds by the window so it'll be nice to sit in bed and read and look out a window. =] In any case, it was pretty stressful figuring out logistics and everything, but it's done now, and I'm pretty happy. Ordered more pictures from Costco to put on the walls!

Not ready for second semester at ALL. I should actually be doing civil liberties reading right now. Woops. Ah well, class tomorrow so I guess I better get on that. Well, here goes!