I am just now starting to feel those pangs in he stomach you feel when you're about to leave a place you've grown to love
So, I had an odd experience in Annenberg today. i was putting my dishes away (for the last time ever! ::tear::), and as i leave from the exit of the dish place i see two girls there waiting for me with a camera. Odd. Eventually one says "My friend" [and I] "wants to take a picture of you because you look like the guy from Nickelback." I tell them that's a first, which it was, and pose for the picture with 2 gals on my arms, wearing my entomology shirt and smiling because i honestly don't know who they're referring too and what facial expression he makes. Now that I'm Wikipedia-ing it, though, my resemblence with Chad Kroeger is stunning. More than my Jesus one, although I think the latter would make for a better Halloween Costume. Of course, now i have to listen to more Nickelback songs. I do love "Animals," though, a lot. it's on my gym playlist.
Today was my last full day in Harvard Square! Tomorrow I leave for a greuling month at home, then off to California. Woo! Anyway, to capstone my time here, i went for most of the Hahvahd tour. They told a fun story i wish to remember, so i write it here.
A famous female philosopher was taking William James' philo 101 class. The final exam had one question: "What is the meaning of life?" Great. It was a nice day, and she preferred to go out and barbecue w/ her friends on the banks of the Charles than take this test. So she wrote that! "Dear Prof. James. It is too nice out to take this exam. I would much rather be outside with my friends." She turns it in, leaves, celebrates, and the next day has a Harvard student freak-out and goes to the professor begging to take the exam again. He says nothing, just passes her her exam. He had written on the top, "Dear Miss. ____, you have grasped the true meaning of life. A+."
Here's where the story gets fun. Years later, a divinity school student has an exam with the same question. He knows of the other story and decides to try the same trick. To answer "what is the meaning of life" he writes "only God knows for sure." Unfortunately, the Professor had a different sense of humor. The student gets the exam back and sees that the professor wrote on the top: "In that case, God passes, you get an F."
What else they say on the tour? That the film crew of "Love Story" told harvard students not to get in the shots and replaced them with extras because the Harvard Students didn't look Harvard enough! Also, Harvard is more liberal than the nation, but positively republican compared to the city of Cambridge! (49-70-80% in 2004)
I'm trying to read the Julie/Julia project blog, but it's going sooo slow. Too much traffic, i bet.
Today was my last full day in Harvard Square! Tomorrow I leave for a greuling month at home, then off to California. Woo! Anyway, to capstone my time here, i went for most of the Hahvahd tour. They told a fun story i wish to remember, so i write it here.
A famous female philosopher was taking William James' philo 101 class. The final exam had one question: "What is the meaning of life?" Great. It was a nice day, and she preferred to go out and barbecue w/ her friends on the banks of the Charles than take this test. So she wrote that! "Dear Prof. James. It is too nice out to take this exam. I would much rather be outside with my friends." She turns it in, leaves, celebrates, and the next day has a Harvard student freak-out and goes to the professor begging to take the exam again. He says nothing, just passes her her exam. He had written on the top, "Dear Miss. ____, you have grasped the true meaning of life. A+."
Here's where the story gets fun. Years later, a divinity school student has an exam with the same question. He knows of the other story and decides to try the same trick. To answer "what is the meaning of life" he writes "only God knows for sure." Unfortunately, the Professor had a different sense of humor. The student gets the exam back and sees that the professor wrote on the top: "In that case, God passes, you get an F."
What else they say on the tour? That the film crew of "Love Story" told harvard students not to get in the shots and replaced them with extras because the Harvard Students didn't look Harvard enough! Also, Harvard is more liberal than the nation, but positively republican compared to the city of Cambridge! (49-70-80% in 2004)
I'm trying to read the Julie/Julia project blog, but it's going sooo slow. Too much traffic, i bet.