Many years ago while waiting for my car to be washed I wandered in to the attached convenience store. In it, I found a red t-shirt with HARVARD written out in big block letters. Upon closer inspection I saw in tiny print above HARVARD the wording, “I never went to”. The shirt seemed perfect for me.
I am very pleased with the education I got at USC but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that somewhere deep inside my brain there is that desire to say that I attended an Ivy, with Harvard of course being the ultimate of that group. Well tomorrow my time will have come. The next three days I will be a Harvard student and get all the up to date information that the Harvard medical school faculty has to offer. I might not get a Harvard diploma but I will get a certificate with the name of that illustrious institution.
You might be saying to yourself why travel all that way when everything you need to know is at your fingertips on the World Wide Web. That comes to the real reason for the trip, my intense desire to blog. I’ve always been envious of people who have real passion in their lives. You know the types, the guy with all the fancy tools in his garage and makes amazing furniture. Or the person who is always on the golf course (although I agree with Mark Twain in that golf seems like a good walk ruined). Then there are the collectors: stamps, coins, rare books, you name it, there is someone passionate about collecting stuff. Even my young son has developed a hobby of tinkering with electronics. It makes me very envious.
Well my time has come and it is this blog. I love writing about our travels and really enjoy all the comments people post and positive feedback I hear about our adventures. The blog has become my passion. As we travel I am constantly thinking of what to write and what to show. So we are off to Boston to have some fun and possibly even learn some medicine.
Bye for now,
Robert Reiss, Harvard pseudograd, Class of October 19-21, 2016
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