Recently returned from my transatlantic weekend trip. I did not achieve much in tangible terms (I even failed to meet friends), but I had insights.

New York was okay. But Cambridge, the old stomping ground, was great. There is some electric band playing at Harvard square at any one time, with students and townies dancing their heads off, until the boys in blue show up around midnight, using only their presence to signify that the party should be wrapping up. And you can have free Coke refills. I really I want to go study there.