Its been 1 hectic week since I arrived at Boston, which explains why my travel blog took 1 week before its up. No photos are up at the moment, simply because I havent had time to slowly upload them one by one.
First impressions of Boston are that its really spacious compared to Singapore, and the "T" line (their version of the MRT) is quite chui. the green line, which serves the BU area, is really bad. It consists of 2 tram cars rolling along tracks that were laid since 1914. Its slow, it follows the traffic lights, and it gives you daily surprises. the nearest T station from our place to BU central, where the School of Law is, is only 5 stops, but there's no predicting how many trains we have to change. They have a weird habit here of telling you that the train will run express to another stop 4 or 5 stops away ONLY when they are about to do so. You could happily get on the T, only to be told 1 stop down that it will run express and hence past your station. Oh and it gets really noisy when its underground. Pictures will be up when I find the time to upload them.
The BU school of law is reputably the tallest law school in USA, and that is not a good thing. It has 17 floors and 1 basement, and 6 cranky lifts that didnt work the second time i took it. The people are really nice though, and the LLM class that we are technically attached to, has a wide variety of nationalities, which made for some very interesting meal conversations. We hang out quite a bit with this puerto rican gal, and this german guy who brought his spanish gf over to Boston too. We spent all day complaining about the american habit of drowning their food in sauces, and how we are all going to get fat if we keep eating out all the time.
And for the first time in my life, I got denied alcohol, and its at a law school party, simply because I didnt have my ID with me (in their language, i got "carded"). I end up drinking some sucky cranberry juice. But, it may not be a loss, simply because US beer sucks. haha
And i'm pleased to announce that my cable tv over here has EPL football! Finally I don't have to watch american sports all the time!
Ok more photos will be up as and when i manage to upload them.
Going on exchange means its only pass fail for 1 entire year. For those who don't already know, I'm at Boston U for the fall semester, and heading off to NYU for the spring semester.
There's really nothing much to be said, except that my modules are:
- Advanced International Law
- International Human Rights
- War Crime and Terror
- Accounting for Lawyers
Oh, and i shall try to attend all classes (I think I'm kidding myself over here)
There's really nothing much to be said, except that my modules are:
- Advanced International Law
- International Human Rights
- War Crime and Terror
- Accounting for Lawyers
Oh, and i shall try to attend all classes (I think I'm kidding myself over here)
My results!
And after 1 semester in Boston, I'm pleased to reveal the following:
- Intellectual Property - pass
- International Intellectual Property - pass
- Introduction to American Law - pass
- Introduction to International Law - pass
- International Commercial Arbitration - pass
- Beginner's Tennis - audit
- Intellectual Property - pass
- International Intellectual Property - pass
- Introduction to American Law - pass
- Introduction to International Law - pass
- International Commercial Arbitration - pass
- Beginner's Tennis - audit
The BU terrier!
3 comments:
i like your blog name! and i'm really jealous that you have cable. i haven't found a place to satisfy my weekly epl dose yet. boo
Hahaha! Your feet sticks out of the bed! I have been drinking alcohol almost every day! It's cheaper than water here which sucks for me :( :( :(. But wine is good :) :) :) I think if you walk around here, you will be happy to have people on eye level with you. But most likely most of them may still be taller than you. Feel short here! Haha
Update more, the pictures are lovely :)
hahaha actually there aren't that many people here that are taller than me. but those that are, they are really damn tall!
and over here we get carded all the time when we buy alcohol! so even though alcohol is real cheap, we end up not being able to drink it half the time.
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