Bostonian observations

BU, I must admit, was surprisingly interesting. The campus is really nice, and it blends into the rest of the city well, so it really feels urban (which I happen to like). But they also have a lot of space along the Charles River that they call the BU Beach, where you can hang out in the shade and study/picnic/play frisbee, and kinda get away from the whole inner-city Boston environment. That's pretty cool.

The College of Communications has a radio station where students can sign up to have their own shows. I had to bite my lip hard to keep from cracking up when the tour guide mentioned that two of her friends did a two-hour radio show devoted to Bon Jovi. (That was not only hilarious, but also inspiring... if I do end up here, a certain COM classmate of mine will definitely have to do a radio show with me. Wink wink, nudge nudge.)

On the minus side, their classes are huge. There was mention of three or four hundred-student classes for freshmen, and not only that but classes of twenty or twenty-five seemed to be what they considered minuscule. Yuck. They also wouldn't let me go to their dining hall for lunch, citing some nonsense about it being just for students, so I can only assume that their food is gross and they're hiding it from me. Tufts' food is supposed to be awesome, too.

Seeing as how I just walked around a college campus two blocks from Fenway Park, swarmed with hundreds (literally, hundreds, I'm not kidding) of people in Red Sox hats and/or shirts, I think this is a good place to mention four random Red Sox-related thoughts floating around in my head.

1) Being 0-2 sucks. I don't know how many more losses I can take before I have a nervous breakdown.

2) Johnny "The Messiah" Damon is now a published author, apparently. I visited the BU bookstore and there was a huge display of Idiot, his book about playing for the Red Sox. How cool is that?

3) Rumor floating around Boston is that Terry Francona had a heart attack today. All the papers are saying is he's having some tests because of some minor chest tightness. I hope he's okay... he's had heart issues for a while now, this is a bit worrisome.

4) Is it just me, or is this absolutely hilarious? Oh? It is just me? Okay, whatever.

My brain's empty, so that's all for now. Tufts is tomorrow, stay tuned.