(pics of the charles river, which my room overlooked)
i really shouldn't go two weeks without writing, as i know i'm leaving out much.
at the end of week 7, all of us MIT lincoln lab interns had to leave our on-campus housing due to the incoming mit students' needing to move in. sad day. it was definitely an amazing place to stay. plus, one can only imagine how fun and easy it is to find housing in boston for only a 4 week stay. i should have started my search earlier. i had many craigslist people stand me up and back out just hours before i was going to come and pay. oh well. i finally got a nice, little place near porter sq (north of harvard). it was only $750/month, so i got a steal. :) only catch is there is no closet, so i improvised w/ the wall and the bookshelf in the neighboring room. it's only half a mile from the T (subway station), and the neighborhood definitely has a nice homely, old-school, historical, pot-hole-ridden street feel to it. it's good. its suburbian feel reminds me a lot of georgia's.
what i really like is how accessible and well-connected the town is--this applies to all of boston and cambridge. its walk-ability has helped me fall in love w/ this city. but yea, the streets here are uncommonly empty of cars, and are overwhelmed w/ joggers in all directions. i remember noticing this one day as i walked home from work in my dress shoes. as i crossed the intersection, i could see no cars in sight, but i saw a young woman pushing a baby stroller in the middle of the street to my left, someone w/ laundry on the sidewalk to my right, and a jogger coming towards me. later that day, we had a thunderstorm, and i just opened my windows and enjoyed it. i could definitely live here. at least i say this now, having not experienced the notorious winters. i don't want to be a snowman.
recently, i've been to a few restaurants, including a thai one and a more generic malayasian and chinese one. i need practice for when i go to indonesia. oh, and i've been learning some indonesian. i can only say basic phrases such as greetings, name exchanges, where i'm from, expressing what i like/dislike, want, need, etc, and just a tad concerning food, drink, direction/location. if anyone says anything beyond these exact phrases, i'm probably hopeless, heh. good thing i'll have my loving sidekick to help me out ;) she's pretty much fluent.
at the end of week 7, all of us MIT lincoln lab interns had to leave our on-campus housing due to the incoming mit students' needing to move in. sad day. it was definitely an amazing place to stay. plus, one can only imagine how fun and easy it is to find housing in boston for only a 4 week stay. i should have started my search earlier. i had many craigslist people stand me up and back out just hours before i was going to come and pay. oh well. i finally got a nice, little place near porter sq (north of harvard). it was only $750/month, so i got a steal. :) only catch is there is no closet, so i improvised w/ the wall and the bookshelf in the neighboring room. it's only half a mile from the T (subway station), and the neighborhood definitely has a nice homely, old-school, historical, pot-hole-ridden street feel to it. it's good. its suburbian feel reminds me a lot of georgia's.
what i really like is how accessible and well-connected the town is--this applies to all of boston and cambridge. its walk-ability has helped me fall in love w/ this city. but yea, the streets here are uncommonly empty of cars, and are overwhelmed w/ joggers in all directions. i remember noticing this one day as i walked home from work in my dress shoes. as i crossed the intersection, i could see no cars in sight, but i saw a young woman pushing a baby stroller in the middle of the street to my left, someone w/ laundry on the sidewalk to my right, and a jogger coming towards me. later that day, we had a thunderstorm, and i just opened my windows and enjoyed it. i could definitely live here. at least i say this now, having not experienced the notorious winters. i don't want to be a snowman.
recently, i've been to a few restaurants, including a thai one and a more generic malayasian and chinese one. i need practice for when i go to indonesia. oh, and i've been learning some indonesian. i can only say basic phrases such as greetings, name exchanges, where i'm from, expressing what i like/dislike, want, need, etc, and just a tad concerning food, drink, direction/location. if anyone says anything beyond these exact phrases, i'm probably hopeless, heh. good thing i'll have my loving sidekick to help me out ;) she's pretty much fluent.
Q: which language do you wish to learn?
mexican.
ReplyDeletei'll assume you meant spanish, brian
ReplyDeletenope. mexican.
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