On July 9th, just after the end of the busyexam-week, we embarked on a journey to Boston, USA, and started our two-month summerresearch project. When we first arrived in Boston, we felt the unique appeal ofAmerican culture's diversity and tolerance: foreign friends from all over theworld used their enthusiasm to answer questions for us, no matter it was about housingor transportation. Their enthusiasm helped us to adapt to life here quickly.
On the second day, we visited the Bostoncampus. Founded in 1839, Boston University is a top private institution with along history and the third largest private university in the United States. Theuniversity has more than 29,800 students from 50 states and 125 countries, witha total of 4,700 overseas students. Because the Boston campus is distributedalong the Charles River as a whole and it has a rectangular shape, there isbasically no detour in the campus. From the west side of Commonwealth Avenue tothe east, you can basically finish the campus. A characteristic of Americanuniversities is that some universities have their own churches. We visited thechurch in the center of the school, Marsh Chapel. Marsh Chapel was named afterDaniel L. Marsh, former dean of Boston University. The church is entirelyGothic, with a wide interior and stained glass.
In the evening, we gathered together at toexperience cooking by ourselves. This was our first time to have dinnertogether after we arrived in the United States. We tried a lot of cookingmethods, and finally we chose to put all the dishes in one pot. Although wefinally had dinner at 9 o'clock in the evening, everyone felt very happy andfound that it was reallydelicious to put all the dishes in one pot. I thinkthis could be the first skill to be harvested in this trip to United States.
At the weekend, we crossed the HarvardBridge with adoration and visited the temple of science and engineering - MIT.The Harvard Bridge is the most prestigious of the many bridges leading to MIT.The length of the bridge does not use the "foot" of the English unitcommonly used by Americans, nor the international unit "meter", but aunique unit smoot. There is no corresponding vocabulary in Chinese. In fact,this is an English surname. In 1958, a freshman from MIT called Oliver Sumterapplied to join the Brotherhood. As part of the test of pranks, the body ofSmatter was used as a tool by the friends of the Brotherhood to measure thelength of the bridge.
On the secondFriday, we visited famous Museum of Fine Art of Boston. MFA is the fifthlargest museum in the United States, and it houses more than 450,000 works ofart. From medieval works to modern times, including Europe, Asia, America,Oceania and other works, the collection is very diverse. The number of peoplevisiting museums on that day was very large, and many of them were visitingwith children. Under the leadership of the commentator, we have learned a lotabout the background and significance of some of the works. This visit hasopened up our horizons and made us feel the importance that American societyattaches to its citizen.
