It's been a while since I made the last post, so lets break the silence. I visited Boston! (a month ago, so it's not really a fresh piece of news :D)
Anyway, I joined the guys from the Graduate College who have their own cars so getting there was fairly easy. The weather was fine - it was cold but it wasn't snowing so we could make it through the freedom trail and saw the most important stuff that's to see in Boston. I took some nice pictures that you cannot see unless we're friends on facebook :P and we headed towards one of the main attraction of Boston: bars.
We had the first beer at about 5 pm and the guys then went to find another bar, closer to the center. I, however, wanted to see the MIT, supposedly the best engineering university in the world and one French guy joined me. Pretty much all I wanted was a t-shirt as a souvenir and so I googled the hours of the MIT store. We had about an hour until the closing time so we set out for the walk. Finding the store turned out to be quite a difficult a task because nobody we asked knew where it was. We managed to find it eventually, but it was only 15 minutes before it was closing. That was enough for me to buy what I wanted :)
Unfortunately, it was too dark to see other MIT's facilities and I believe (or hope?) I didn't miss anything huge, as this kind of stuff usually isn't publicly accessible. So, bars followed. We met the rest of the guys in the center in a bar where the beer was $2/pint (473ml). We started drinking... and at about 10 pm paid $230 just for beer and shots. We were four. More places continued and soon I couldn't drink more.
In a state of not feeling well I left and walked (!) in snow back to the hotel. I have no idea how I found it because it was at least a 20 minute walk. Anyway, I arrived safe and with my camera. Not losing anything makes me feel especially proud of myself.
The morning was bad, though. I had huge bags under my eyes and I wanted to do nothing but sleep. Sadly, we had to check out and leave. The original plan was to go and see the universities but it was snowing and so we decided to go straight to Schenectady. I spent the whole time sleeping...
Ha, definitely cool!
