<p>The Pineapple Fried Rice with Shrimp at Spice is always a favorite of mine!</p>
<p>Hat, Thank you! hopefully my son will arrive before the storm</p>
<p>Today was a great day to move upperclassmen in - no traffic, good weather and plenty of parking!</p>
<p>^ I’m jealous!</p>
<p>Apparently I was lucky bringing my D in the morning. She called and said that later in the afternoon, the place was becoming a zoo!</p>
<p>Well, we’re headed up there shortly. It is pouring on the east coast. However, there’s comfort in knowing that this is the last undergraduate move-in!</p>
<p>We just dropped D at the airport earlier this morning. She’s heading back on her own for her last undergraduate move-in, too. Fortunately for the rest of you, she won’t be taking up a parking space in front of her house! (Just a seat on the Silverline bus and red line.) We took a photo at the airport of her with her backpack. It was reminiscent of the photo we took on her first day of kindergarten.</p>
<p>We are about half an hour from campus with a full vanload of stuff. It is pouring so hard that we actually contemplated checking into a motel and moving the stuff in tomorrow morning. However, we have to drive back home tonight so that we can move Twin2 in tomorrow. It could be worse, right?</p>
<p>DD made it safe and sound back to H - she did not miss her connecting flight or get stuck at her connecting airport as I had feared. Like nceph’s D, she, too, occupied a seat on the Boston T to make it from the airport to Cambridge. Twinmom, hope that all went well for you and that you made it back home safely.</p>
<p>Leaving Cambridge in absolutely beautiful weather. Go figure!</p>
<p>Left NY at 8:30 this morning, moved DS in in the rain, took DS and roommates out for lunch, left in a semi monsoon, got home by 6:30 and the sun was shining.</p>
<p>Much better than last year when I drove home through a hurricane.</p>
<p>Today I learned that there is a Home Depot and Target about 7 minutes away from the houses (by car) … Good to know even though it’s a bit late for us!</p>
<p>^It’s also possible to get to that Home Depot and Target by the 70 or 70A buses.</p>
<p>I made a [Google</a> Map](<a href=“Boston-area stores - Google My Maps”>Boston-area stores - Google My Maps) last year with locations of stores and things around the Boston area for the new freshmen. Sorry I forgot to post it here this year.</p>
<p>Great map Mollieb- thanks for sharing it!</p>
<p>Anybody here know whether it is useful to do an honors thesis?</p>
<p>Extremely, extremely useful. Students learn a ton from doing it, they get to have a very close relationship with their adviser, it looks good to grad schools and prospective employers.
My S explored a topic that he thinks he may carry on with through grad school.</p>
<p>If somebody already has been doing research for 4 years, has a publication and is going to med school, is it of value?</p>
<p>Let me ask a different question: If someone already has tenure and a string of publications, is there any point to doing any more research? Most profs, especially those at research universities like Harvard, would say yes. The reward is the research itself, the sense of discovery, of thinking through some knotty or merely intriguing problem; not what’s on your resume or your prof’s recommendations.
Besides, it will look odd if an otherwise stellar student is NOT doing a senior thesis.</p>
<p>DocT: Is she applying now or taking a year off inbetween?</p>
<p>She has already applied.</p>