I had left an extra day after the movers just in case any problems came up – but they didn’t! So I spent a really nice day wandering around Harvard and Cambridge, kind of saying good-bye for now. The weather was perfect – about 70 degrees F (21 for my Celsius friends) and not much humidity (so no frizzy, cotton-ball hair!). Couldn’t have been better! A few highlights:
Harvard Graduate School of Education haunts…
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- Gutman Library – lotsa classes, lotsa meetings, lotsa coffee, lotsa books!
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- Larsen Hall — lots more classes 😉
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- Askwith Hall — quiet and empty; big change from Latin America Learns Conference day!
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- The fountain — what it looks like without all of IEP posing around it!
Where I lived 30 years ago….
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- The Radcliffe Quad
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- North House (now Pforzheimer House) at the Quad
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- Wolbach Hall of North House
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- Top floor, back right corner — that was us!!
Where I worked 30 years ago (note the job progression!)…
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- I cleaned bathrooms at Eliot House…
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- …and took out trash at Lowell House.
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- Back in the day, students drove (a much smaller version of) the Harvard Shuttle around campus — best job ever!
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- Canaday Entry E – my office as head of “Unit Test” tutoring program for Economics 10 was in the basement…
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- …and I spent many hours at Littauer, home of the Economics department, doing research for my professors
Just some classic Harvard spots worth remembering….
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- The Science Center — said to be built in the shape of a Polaroid camera…
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- Sitting on the steps at Memorial Church looking across to Widener Library…
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- Memorial Hall and Sanders Theater
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- Through the gate and into the yard!
Move-out day…
Since it’s the last weekend in June, I passed LOTS of fellow students moving out all along the way, and (while empathizing), was really happy that my many trips carting things up and down to my fourth-floor walk-up were done!
I even got to stay in a really nice bed & breakfast right in the heart of Harvard as I had won a free night’s stay as part of a graduation raffle….
Wonderful ending to a wonderful year — hasta la vista to one of my favorite places in the world 🙂 !
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