1. The dorms are air-condition-less.
OMG, I have no idea how I survived the July heat wave with no AC. Living in a very cramped AC-less dorm room in the middle of summer for 4 weeks has made me realize just how lucky, blessed and spoiled I really am.
2. The head coach of the Harvard Debate Council is named Dallas and he has a really cool Southern accent.
Dallas was just one of the many wonderful people I met from HDC. Seriously though, everyone in HDC is simply magical! <i>Why can't everyone in the world just be like them???</i>
3. According to this good-looking Harvard Admissions guy, "Harvard University is home to more varsity sports than any other institution in the nation."
Woah, who would have thought, right?! I've always thought that Harvard would be full of other nerds like me...
I hope you enjoyed those 3 random facts :D Hopefully you all didn't previously know those facts? Otherwise, this title would totally not work... Anyway, despite the whole AC situation, I couldn't have asked for a better way to spend my summer. The campus was amazing, the food was amazing, and the people were even more amazing than the campus and the food combined. They have motivated me to continue debating despite the fact that after I moved, my new school no longer had a debate team. In fact, I'm going to create my very own debate team! These people have taught me in 4 weeks all the life lessons I had been trying to instill in myself for the past 15 years...
Therefore, I'd like to dedicate these photographs not just to Harvard, but to the Harvard Debate Council in particular. Thanks for helping me rediscover my love for debate, HDC. Like I said, you guys are so... magical ... like unicorns!!! :D
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| ^ A very touching statue in Harvard Square with a description that reads, "Never Again Should A People Starve In a World Of Plenty." Good message, but the grammar is really bugging me. I know it was made in the ancient times when English was "different" and all but AHHH, someone get rid of the "A," please! |
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| ^ I passed by this building every day on my way to dinner in Harvard Square! (Yet, I still don't know what the heck it's for. LOL.) |
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| ^ It's John Harvard!!! He/his statue actually looks quite handsome, haha. Sorry I couldn't get a clearer picture. A bunch of tourists were pushing their way through me... |
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| ^ A figurine on a cigarette store... ... ... ??? |
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| ^ Cool buildings on top of the cigarette store. |
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| ^ A huge Harvard book store called "The Coop." I spent a bunch of my free time here. |
That concludes the Harvard trip. Thank you guys for reading and reliving this amazing journey with me. :) I missed you guys so much!!! I'm so grateful I have this blog to rant about my nerdy stuff, haha!
P.S. My mom says "thanks for the nice comments. You are good people."
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No air condition? omg how can they be so cruel t-t
ReplyDeleteSince when are you a nerd? o.o You’re one of the coolest persons I know. You even got to go to Harvard last month! o.o
What exactly does a debate team do? I know it’s kind of self-explanatory, but still.. xD
& Welcome back!! :)
Hey Sunny. I haven’t talked to you in so long! I think I sent you a couple of emails though and I don’t know what happened to them. You told me that you were going to Harvard! You are definitely on your way there. Have you ever watched the Social Network? It takes place at Harvard and I think I remember that the statue actually isn’t John Harvard. But I don’t know, it might be another statue. All of my “studying” of movies gives me this kind of random knowledge Email me! I have so much to tell you. Hope your life is going well
ReplyDeleteHi Sunny! Wow looks like you’ve been quite busy. I love that you’ve found something you love. It’s really beautiful when you notice passion in people. I think that experience is amazing and I’m glad you enjoyed it so. You’ve definitely outstepped me. I’m way too nervous to go off and meet new people and live with them for a few months. I’m just so used to my cozy home that I don’t want to leave, but I suppose this fear will have to be faced soon enough :/
ReplyDeleteThe photos you took are, as always, beautiful. I was hoping we could link each other as friends—like the old times :) I could put you under my affiliates as soon as I get home. I really don’t have a good internet source here so I’m not too sure if linking now is a good time.
Anyway my tumblr? I have two ones that I keep up with. One is more pro than the other and has much more followers, but I will give you more of my personal one which I try and update little because I’m so busy with the other and my website and such. The url is aceurdo Let me know what yours is so I can follow you?
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WOW! You got to go to Harvard :) :) I went there a few years ago for a leadership retreat and it was AWESOME! I remember the statue—I believe it’s good luck to touch the foot or something like that, and because so many people do it, they never have to polish the foot! haha.
ReplyDeleteAnd the coop! i spent a lot of money there! I bought myself and my dad a Harvard Hoodie, as well as some other nice memorabilia :) hehe. The area is so cool!
I only had a week there, so not too much time to explore :( But it looks like you did! I’m glad you had a great time!
I couldn’t believe it when you mentioned that tiny tidbit about the dorm rooms at Harvard being aircon-less. :O Surely there are other dorms around, yes? Maybe that was just for one building. I went to a nationally-acclaimed high school, and its building was rather large BUT old and couldn’t handle an air-conditioning system. Lore has it that the first time they turned on the central air-conditioning unit, the building shook so badly they thought there was a quake! Since then the air-conditioning has remained switched off; what a sad waste of budget.
ReplyDeleteHarvard is still a beautiful school, nonetheless. I still wish I could have the chance to go there, even if it’s just for grad school. You’re very lucky!
Welcome back! You are so lucky that you are able to go to Harvard and spent four weeks there. It is sure looks like a good place to be.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you had fun!
Welcome back! John Harvard does look very handsome! ahaha, glad you liked it there (: And no airco sounds awful, I don’t have airco at home but here it’s almost never too warm. Hope you had enough ice cold drinks? :) And I really like the pictures you made, I don’t know much of Harvard..
ReplyDeleteWell, the whole thing with the A in the sentence is still correct grammar!
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