September 24, 2008

Today we woke up slightly later than usual, so almost everyone wasn't as tired compared to yesterday. We got some breakfast and took the Bus to our first college visit. We first went to Boston University, and we met in the room where a man gave us a overview on the college, the classes they teach, the requirements to get in, and so on. Eventually, we walked out of the lecture room, and a representative of the college showed us around the University. A lot of the dorms were really high up, which seemed to be different from most other colleges. After the tour we took the Bus to Harvard University to get some lunch.

We arrived at Harvard, and Steve told us there was a Quiznos in the vicinity, so some other people and I embarked on an epic quest to find Quiznos but it failed miserably because Steve was thinking he saw a Mexican restaurant that happened to be called Quiznos. Eventually, Steve gave us a tour of Harvard University. The tour mainly involved Steve referring to all the significant people that went to Harvard. Harvard recieved a lot of praise for being a school full of geniuses. Steve says that it costs about 150$ to apply to Harvard and that 7% of applicants were accepted. I would be pretty suprised if someone in our junior year just happened to get accepted in Harvard, because the requirements seem really big.

We ended our tours of genius only colleges and proceeded by bus to the location where 77 minute man stood of against a huge army of British troops. There was memorial to them, and it shows those who were involved, dead, or wounded. Eventually we went to Lexington and Concord and saw the bridge where the American and British army where the "shot heard around the world" happened. It was the first time where any colony fired at their mother country. We eventually took a walk a long this pond and went to the movie theater. We got tickets to Righteous Kill, and we were lucky enough to find a Quiznos in the nearby mall. The movie was awesome, and it was a pretty solid day.