NYC... Here We Come!

After months of being in the Harvard bubble, shuttling to classes, engaging in intellectual debates, writing academic papers, writing sponsorship letters and letters of intent, analyzing financial statements, doing equity analysis, meeting renowned people from gore to stiglitz to ban ki moon to gobok (yeah just checking if you guys can spot the not), it's Thanksgiving. Yes, next week, and I need to get out of this Harvard bubble for a while and see the world out there, not just the daily Boston trip.

So, I and a couple of other friends are heading on a roadtrip next weekend to New York City! It will be an adventure - hopping on the Chinatown bus (it's cheaper than the trains or plane) and staying at a hostel in Manhattan near Harlem - yes, HARLEM. it's that place. Nevertheless, the danger makes it more fun right? I wouldn't be surprised to hear gunshots in that neighborhood. Haha, i may be exaggerating, or maybe not, but u get what the place more or less is like.. it's gonna be another adventure! haha and i'm gonna fulfill one of my 2008 goals of visiting NYC - wall street (maybe future workplace), times square, statue of liberty, broadway, etc.

And after that...well, back to business. But I shall spend money wisely this trip because I am spending the money that I earned while doing odd jobs here at Harvard - from cleaning rooms and bathrooms, to participating in business school studies, to being test subjects for neuroscience experiments (no, they don't do anything that may affect your health). Haha and next term I might get a real job, perhaps in the admissions office where you get to sort all the interesting crap people send in with their applications (i heard some people do weird stuff - someone sent a life-size cardboard cut out of himself last year, some send chocolates together with their applications too - sucking up doesn't work here, FYI)

This weekend is THE GAME - Harvard vs Yale 2008! Yalies are coming to town, and it's going to be exciting to meet our rivals (or so they claim to be ;p)