Unlike American cities, Cambridge has windy streets with lots of roundabouts. The crosswalks are often not at the intersections, and the paths often have gates to restrain the cows. Plus, the square courts feature perfect grass although you can’t walk on it. As you can imagine, it’s different here. The differences can be strange and annoying at first, but sometimes they’re worth a good walk’s thought.
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As many of you know, my highlight of every week at MIT is going grocery shopping – and finding ways to somehow take advantage of every sale possible (i.e. reduced price produce, milk at the gas station, showing up to the store at 7 AM on a Friday because I read their new weekly ads posted at 6AM, bargaining with MacGregor Convenience to get a gallon of milk for 25 cents, etc.) Yeah, you know what I mean. This is serious shopping.
So now that I’m in the other Cambridge (where things tend to cost more $$$), I’ve found it an extra challenge to really enjoy my hobby, but I’m working hard to take advantage of every opportunity I get. So I’ll start with some general advice and then expand the last bits in more detail.
The transition to Cambridge has been a rather interesting one and most definitely a work in progress. Before I comment on Cambridge though, I should mention that I much miss you all, and I hope you are enjoying IAP to its fullest back at MIT. I am trying to avoid reading too many of the forum emails, so I have the filter to only let me see emails with the word “kitchen” in them. But in any case, I’ll try to recap some of the interesting aspects of transitioning to Cambridge.
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