boston

there's nothing much to say about my trip to boston except that it was short and was really devoted to work. our day started at 8 am and we did not leave the office until past 6 pm. we did go to a lot of nice restaurants to eat --- summer shack, legal seafoods, cantina italiana and ole mexican grill. by the time we were finished with dinner, it was already dark and we could not do any sightseeing anymore. on our last night, however, ximena kindly drove us to harvard.



unfortunately, we did not see much of the campus. i did have my picture taken rubbing the foot of john harvard's statue. ximena told us that everyone that goes to harvard does that and so we did. that leaves me with one other place i had to go to.

the next day, i woke up reaaaaally early (which was a big thing for me) and walked across the bridge to the other side of the river to... yep, MIT.



i remember requesting for an application form, just to check what i needed to get in. well, i needed around 2 million pesos so that ruled out any chances of me attending MIT. anyway, i was taking pictures outside of the engineering and sciences building when i saw someone go in. seeing that there was no security checking if you're a student or not, i decided to go in as well.

i was in awe the moment i went in. i don't know what it was that made me feel this way. probably the prestige that comes with the school, being one of the best schools in the world. it somehow dawned on me that this was just a dream for me, same as when i dreamt of being an olympian. i am not nor was i ever a very technical person. i don't think i could ever be a great engineer or an exceptional programmer. but i am entitled to dream, aren't i? :)

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another good thing about boston is... cheesecake factory!!! they have the best cheesecakes, i swear! the godiva cheesecake is still the clear winner. i also tried the chocolate sundae cheesecake (i'm sure this is not the correct name but it's close) and it was also fantastic! yum yum yum!