A two month summer in Boston just flew by, and now I’m back in Galveston. The dreaded second year of med school starts tomorrow with CVP (Cardiovascular Pulmonary).
If you missed any of my Boston photos, here’s links to all of them:
Although I haven’t been putting them up on my blog, I’ve taken several more pictures of the Boston area, and they are up on my Flickr page. Here’s a quick run-through:
Boston Aquarium
The aquarium was pretty cool, although it was small compared to the aquarium Maria and I saw in Monterey. Regardless, it was a very cool to see the penguins.
Institute of Contemporary Art
The ICA is in a brand new building, so the style was, well, contemporary! The actual exhibit portion is small: I walked through the entire thing in less than an hour. What was more exciting was the actual architecture of the building: the exhibits are placed on the fourth floor, and you take a giant glass elevator (about the size of my dorm room at UT) up to that floor.
JFK Presidential Library and Museum
This museum was very interesting, although I had already heard most of what was mentioned at The Sixth Floor Museum (from where Kennedy was shot) in Dallas.
MIT
It felt good to be at MIT… For some reason, I felt like I was at home, surrounded by engineers. The museum was awesome, so check out the Flickr pics for some of the museum contraptions.
Random Boston strolls
Oh, and this bridge just looks amazing!
In 1997 (ten years ago), after Steve Jobs returned back to Apple, a set of commercials known as “Think Different” launched. These commercials advertised nothing but Apple’s culture. No products were shown in these ads simply because Steve Jobs was too embarrassed to show Apple’s awful product line on television.
Man, how things have changed. In ten years, Apple is now one of the richest companies in the world. Watch the commercial, and you’ll realize how far Apple has come in such a short time.
The text from the commercial:
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, quote them, disagree with them
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can
change the world, are the ones who do.
