In Boston

Yesterday I described the journey to Boston, with a little detour into political ranting en route. One item in the journey I neglected to mention, just West of Albany there was a road sign: Albany/Montreal (left lanes) Boston/New York (right). I love American road signs, they tell you about great things, you just have to be willing to drive millions of miles. Lesley had an interesting point, ignore Montreal and the road sign we passed, is hardly much of a choice, for once I'll be bearing hard right!

Anyway Sunday December 30 we spent the day in Boston. I am not sure if it was the site of the hotel room, but Lesley decided that we should leave after the day, which was alright by me.

We saw Harvard campus which was a surprising experience for me. The last time I went to Harvard in the summer after grade 9 I was inspired, I really wanted to go there, I was so impressed by the campus... (I was an odd high schooler). Now, with a B. Math (Waterloo, Honours, Co-op, Major: Computer Science) and an M. Eng (Ryerson, Computer Networks) Harvard seemed... well Passe. I'm not saying the schools I went to are that super impressive, they aren't and the degrees I got, a function of hard work, not raw brains. It just seemed that everything at Harvard this time was smaller and I guess the realisation that which University you go to does not matter, its that you had the self discipline to finish. (In truth the smartest people I know either did not go to University or dropped out). Funny it took a Master's degree for me to learn that.

Lesley made an interesting observation, everyone in Boston wears a baseball cap. I wonder if all the tourists at Harvard in their ball caps just degraded the place too much for me?