It's the third day of steady rain in Boston. I can't complain too much, because I know it rained all last week in MD and DC, but still, it's not conducive to me exploring the city. I haven't ventured out much, but I have gotten to know a few of my new classmates.
Tuesday night I hoped to check out a local music place with a student who lives two blocks away, but when we got there we quickly decided it was not our scene. Luckily, it was near Doyle's, which we had both visited and liked, so we stayed there a for a while and soaked up some local flavor.
Wednesday I hosted a group of students to talk about an assignment for our first class: imagine you are part of a group forming a utopian society. You are in charge of the legal system (courts, prison, etc). What sort of system would you set up, and why?
It's a pretty intense assignment, with flexibility to go in almost any direction. It was neat to have six people, and six different opinions, talking it over. It's also nice to have a few faces I'll recognize when I start orientation on Monday.
It's so strange to think orientation is almost here. There's a networking site - a "fake facebook" that I've been using to meet other students, looking for housing, etc. The home page of the site has a big countdown X days X hours X minutes X seconds until Northeastern Orientation!
When I first was accepted, it was 150 days. Now, it's 4 days, 10 hours, and change. It's weird to be so close! I've got a lot of reading to do before then, as well as go back to to RMV to get my plates, get my books, and a bunch of things I'm sure I'm forgetting...
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