reflection

Personally I really enjoyed the Boston trip I thought that it was interesting to see where all the action actually happened. My favorite part of the trip that was not academic was the two hour dinner cruise on the boat named, The Spirit of Boston. Not only was it fun to watch Noah and Kyle dance with the older guests on the boat and to have what felt like our own private dinner with in Mara’s and my opinion good food but it was also very beautiful. We were able to see the whole water line of Boston at night with all the lit buildings.

If I had to change something about the trip it would be to not have gone to see the USS Constitution because I am not quit sure what the purpose was. I also would have made the wake up time I little later because it is hard to get used to losing time and wake up early. Other then that I thought that the trip went really well I liked how we had education mixed in with other activities.

A lot of what we saw we had already learned in class but it was interesting to see how much historical importance Boston has. This was really highlighted when we could go very far with out our Tour guide Steve telling us more information about different stories or time periods. We learned a lot in class about what happened in Boston but we are learning American history so it was cool to just pay attention to one “colony” to go further in depth.

By touring the two main colleges Boston College and Boston University I was able to find out a little more about what I am interested in a college. I realize that an urban college is more appealing to me. I was able to realize that from comparing and contrasting BC which was more suburban and BU which was an urban setting. I am not sure how I feel about the class sizes seeing as how we didn’t go to any classes in section but I can guess that I would prefer a college like BU in the sense of the teacher availability. The tours helped me to realize that I want an urban school before looking at the two schools I hadn’t thought of that.