Harvard

Today, we had to get up relatively early for we were going on an early tour at Harvard. Instead of another prospective student tour, like we had at Cornell, my family went on this historical tour of Harvard, which I thought sounded to be more interesting. I mean, it's not like I am actually considering Harvard as a potential school, so why would I go on a prospective student tour? The tour we went on was pretty informative - I learned everything from the fact that John Harvard's book collection was burned down in the 1600s, except for one book that was stolen by the person who forgot to put their candle out, to the fact that the Widener Library was a memorial to an alumnus who died on the Titanic. To me, that was a lot more interesting than how much I am not going to be able to afford to go there. The Harvard Yard was pretty, though - so much so that my sister suggested that I should apply there solely for that fact.
After the tour, we tried to go to the Sackler Museum of Art, since the Fog Museum is closed for renovations, but were turned away because they were closed on Mondays. Who is closed on Mondays? And if they were closed, why were their doors open? It turned out to be okay, because they pointed us in the direction of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which was basically a review of AP Biology. My favorite parts there were the colorful specimens they had, and this exhibit full of glass flowers that looked so real, it was hard to believe that someone could actually make something that intricate out of glass. I thought I was done then, but then realized, that there was another wing to the museum. Luckily, this  one was smaller - I don't think my feet could have taken much more.
As is commonly known, walking through museums works up an appetite. Actually finding a place to eat was another matter entirely. You would think there would be a plethora of places to eat in Cambridge, right outside of Harvard, but apparently not. We tried to go to Panera Bread, but it was closed and people were picketing outside, another place was too crowded. Finally, after walking back and forth a bunch, we decided  upon Chicago UNO Grill, which was surprisingly empty at lunch time. I would have liked to tried something unique to Boston/Cambridge, but c'est la vie. After eating our predictably edible lunch, we went to the Harvard COOP, so we could pick up some Harvard apparel. We then went to this eclectic toy shop my mom had heard of, Harvard Book Store, where I wrote down more books that I probably won't have time to read, and then got ice cream JP Licks (? I think that was what it was called....) Like yesterday, my dad and brother left us to go back to our inn, and my us girls continued to eat our ice cream in leisure (I got a delicious combo of oreo-cookie dough and maple butter pecan) and to stop in a tea shop, where my mom bought some loose leaves of earl grey. This is where my impression of what we were going to do (go back and sleep in our room) differed from my mom and sister's (shop!). Clearly, I complained enough about my tiredness to be dropped off, for here I am blogging. That's pretty much it for today (thus far...); tomorrow's focus: MIT!!