Spring, School, Stuff
April 17th, 2008
Weather Update
After endlessly complaining in my last post about the foul weather here, we had a few amazing sunny days of more than 15 degrees and the forecast for the rest of the week is sunny, with temperatures well above 10 degrees. The trees finally start to go out of their naked cemetery mode and there are even birds here. And they’re chirping.
Conclusion? complaining works!
On the other hand, it’s Boston, so on the very same sunny day of >20 degrees, at around 4pm there was a crazy thunderstorm, complete with lightning, thunder and rain. However it was one of these lucky days when the storm started exactly 5 minutes after I returned home from walking around and taking photos:
bird, chirping:
Brattle St., a really nice street:
HBS campus: (finally in bloom)
Mt. Auburn Cemetery:
Harvard Square was full of people: (or as we say in Hebrew, all the mice came out of their holes)
And the unavoidable thunderstorm, on the very same day:
You can see more photos here.
Presents!
It’s so nice to receive an unexpected package in the mail and find out it’s a gift from your summer employer, consisting of the following three books and a note saying “we’re so excited to you have you join us this summer!” Well, I’m excited too, and not only because of the present (though it helps).
The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Don’t know if I ever wrote about it here, but I really love reading, and these books are an excellent excuse to read something that is not business-school related, something I’ve been doing lately but feeling guilty about. :)
And if you’re into books (of a somewhat different nature though), check out my post What do HBS Students Read with fascinating recommendations for business and management books.
And to Hebrew readers, here’s a somewhat-interesting-but-full-of-inaccuracies article in The Marker about Harvard Business School, in light of the 100 years celebration, with focus - of course - on the Israeli angle. It’s an interesting read even though with the percentage of inaccurate facts there it made me doubt everything else I read in The Marker - and I’m talking about facts that are pretty easy to find out like the number of students in class, tuition cost, number of Israeli professors, number of Israeli students etc. Let’s just say I wouldn’t invest in the stock market based on data from The Marker…
Happy Passover!
April 18th, 2008 at 15:52
Glad to hear that the weather is FINALLY turning pleasant!! HEY!!! I don’t know if you know this but, that first picture of the bird you posted….it is ironic, because that bird is a Robin Red Breast. It is one of the first birds of spring… The tradition is that when you see your first Robin in the spring you should make a wish. Your photo is of a female..the male robins have a much brighter red breast. Soooo there is your bird trivia for the day =) geeeez it is is mid april already you can start counting the days to the end of the semester..and just think…YOU SURVIVED =) in fact to me it appears that you did much more than survive, you EXCELLED !!! keep up the great work..keep safe, and warm Andy