{"id":438,"date":"2018-02-25T02:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T02:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hernandi.com\/blog2\/?p=438"},"modified":"2018-02-25T03:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T03:26:50","slug":"please-come-to-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernandi.com\/blog2\/please-come-to-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Come To Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arianna would like to\u00a0attend college in Boston, so this last week, we went to Massachusetts to visit colleges. You might already know there a lots of them in the Boston area, with hundreds of thousands of students.<\/p>\n

One of the colleges on her list(HER list, not our list) is MIT. \u00a0Naturally, we were delighted to attend a college tour of our alma mater. I was particularly intrigued, since I never actually visited MIT until I showed up on campus for rush\/orientation in the fall of 1986.\u00a0Fun fact that didn’t sink into my thick skull until 28 years after I graduated: MIT was founded in 1861 at the start of the Civil War, which delayed the opening of its doors until 1865. It was great to walk the halls again, and happy that Arianna would like to apply.<\/p>\n

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\nAnother college\u00a0we visited was Harvard. Again I was intrigued, but this time because I had actually never set foot on Harvard until we walked through the gates into the admissions office for the tour(I was a lousy tourist while I was in college, sue me). Harvard is a\u00a0great school and very old, having been established\u00a0in 1636. It wasn’t named\u00a0Harvard College until 1639, after John Harvard donated funds and his library to the school. Here’s a picture of Arianna and Cyndi in the quad, with John Harvard in the background. Fun fact: the 1884 statue was designed and built\u00a0by MIT alum Daniel Chester French, who would later create\u00a0the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n

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While we were on campus, we were treated to a short tour of the Widener Library by MIT alum Tony Moulen, who was one of\u00a0Cyndi’s dorm mates(Russian House). Below is\u00a0is Tony(in purple) leading Arianna and Cyndi up the steps. Inside, we\u00a0found ourselves inches away from one of the\u00a0Gutenberg Bibles!\"DSC_0300_101_640\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Third on our list was Boston College. BC was yet another attraction that was little more than something I passed during one of my many training rides\u00a0while I was on the MIT cycling team, so it was nice to actually set foot on campus and learn something about it. It is very beautiful,\u00a0but has a complicated origin, beginning in about 1827, and culminating\u00a0with a charter that was finally approved in 1863 for its first campus in the South End. It moved to its current location on Chestnut Hill starting in 1909.\u00a0\u00a0Arianna really liked the place. She\u00a0is currently\u00a0considering a degree in Math, so it was good fortune that\u00a0our\u00a0tour guide was majoring in Math and Economics.
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I would be remiss if I did not mention our wonderful hosts,\u00a0Vadim\u00a0and\u00a0Justyna Teverovsky. They more or less serve as the nerve center and headquarters of our tightly knit MIT circle,\u00a0both having lived in Russian House, graduating in 1989 and 1990, respectively. We have visited them twice in late 2017 for funerals of MIT friends(including Tony’s late wife Christine, also of MIT Russian House), so it was nice to visit them for a happier mission this time around. They have two kids, Danika and Doran. Danika graduated from the University of Rochester, where Doran is a freshman. Doran gave us an informal tour of University of Rochester on the way home(but it was too rainy for pictures).\u00a0Vadim and Justyna\u00a0have three pets: dogs Jasmine and Milky, plus\u00a0Shadow the feline. They each received\u00a0lots of love from us, despite pet allergies.<\/p>\n

It would be\u00a0totally cool if Arianna attended college in Boston, providing more excuses for visiting\u00a0friends and playing tourist. Here’s the song that inspired the title of this post: Please Come To Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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