Neil Diamond just turned 3000.....

FIRST OFF!!!

The Boston Pops are amazing. Fireworks on the Charles are more amazing. Chinese food mixed in all this makes Cambridge look like Disney World. Me, Charlotte and Wes (All the SFS kids) all went with a couple other Brooksians to MIT and watched the fireworks on the Cambridge side of the Charles. It was OUTSTANDING!!!!! The fireworks were HUGE!!!! It made the ones back up in Haverhill look pathetic....like, depressingly pathetic.

HAPPY FOURTH!!!!

So....I'll describe A little bit of what life next to Harvard Square is like, as well as a little bit more about my job.

So I'm working with 2 RA's who supervise me, and one investigator, who essentially commissions the project. My investigator is Zora Kikinis, one of the nicest bosses I could probably ever hope to have. My RA's are Laurel and Andrew, both really nice people who unfortunately ALWAYS make me feel stupid (Just because of how smart they are and all of my random questions. I now realize many of them are normal for someone just starting, but me being as self-conscious as I am, I feel like I'm bothering them). Just as an aside....I'm starting to love my job, It was just really overwhelming at first. I'm picking up some of the basics though. (By the end of this, I'm downloading Linux) As of right now, I am unsure what I can and can't say about my project (What Zora wants available for public consumption...It IS a research project....), but I will check with them, and hopefully CAN describe it in excruciating detail by Tuesday or something....

ANYWAY:
Back to my original point, Harvard = Disney World, or paradise if your not really into Disney World (can't blame you...there are WAY too many whiny kids....). There's the COOP, which is a world renowned book store/dorm stuff store/vintage harvard clothing store....so they sell everything (theres a cafe there too, but There are other good food places near by.) Theres a movie theater RIGHT next to us, which is where I saw a really bad movie (public enemies, which you'd think would be good, because it had Batman and Johnny Depp in it, but was really disappointing....lost 2 and a half hours of my life....). There's Tons of Restaurants-Fire and Ice is my favorite. You get a table, and run up and grab a bowl at a buffet like table and fill it up, but with raw food, like chicken and steak and noodles, and then a cup full of sauce and bring it to an enormous grill in the center where they fry everything up for you....ITS SOOOOOOO GOOD!!!! Theres also JP Licks, an amazing icecream place that was established in my dad's home neighborhood/section of Boston (Which he never lets me forget). Theres Bertuccis, a chipolet (Butchered the spelling, I know its spelled wierd though...) grill, and a Starbucks on every corner. They have a ton of clothing/apparel stores, and a crazy amount of random street performers...which are amusing some times, bizarre other times....And if they don't have something in Harvard Square you can take the T like 5 minutes anywhere to get whatever you want whenever you want....We hung out in Copley Square today, next to the John Hancock Tower (WHICH IS GINORMOUS).....

Intro to Psychology is a course I'm recommending for any and ALL future SFS kids. Dr. Wenzel is hysterical, but you learn soooo much. He actually makes me happy to sit in a class of 150 and listen to his lecture for 3 hours....seriously....ITS SOOO MUCH FUN!!!! The reading is a lot, but after Dr. K's AP Bio marathon run at the end of the year, its cake. And some of the stuff is pretty interesting-Dream Psychology have always been entertaining to me.

Annenberg Hall is where we eat our meals. It LOOKS LIKE A FLIPPING CATHEDRAL!!! No lie, it looks like Hogwarts....My proctor (Every dorm has one or more to run the place) told us that Harvard has the largest stained glass collection in the country....AND ITS A DINING HALL!!!! It was built solely for eating, never religious purposes, which blows my mind. It actually looks like a castle. And while the food couldn't come close to Brooks,' the place does have a soda dispenser for all my crazy diet coke cravings....which easily makes it better than Brooks....sorry Mr. Manos.

Okay, I've written waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much....If anyone actually read to the bottom of this, and you're reading this now, you should probably pick up a hobby. Stamp Collecting sounds like fun....I'd try that.