sit in a harvard class

thats a good one, will they let me i wonder

im sure they would. It's just one class.

or they probably wouldnt even notice. just go and sit in a classroom lol

lol

you need to go to Trinity Church! it is beautiful!

also you need to go to the boston museum of art

Yes, the MFA, it would be great if you could go to a Red Sox game but good luck getting tickets without buying from a reseller or scalper.

Boston Public Library, visit the North End and Beacon Hill, maybe tour the harbor in a boat... these are all Boston-specific...

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the Boston Museum of art! go there! No go there, when I come visit you

Stitch some of this advice together so that it doesn't seem so overwhelming. The MFA is close to Fenway (just across the Fens)...

... do one and then walk to the other. If $ isn't an issue you can get tickets to Red Sox game if you're into that sort of thing... or

just go see the ballpark (it's nice). Maybe get a drink at one of the places on Lansdowne Street to make it worth the trip...

Buy a Red Sox hat from one of the places at the ballpark. From Fenway walk up Boylston St. and cut over to Newbury St. and head...

toward the Public Gardens. All of that will take several hours (depending on your tolerance for the MFA).

you should just show NickiJea around, robreed.

outside of Boston you might want to visit small seaside towns like Salem, Rockport, and yes, Newburyport.

and maybe you'd want to go here: www.decordova.org/

There's some cool stuff in Cambridge too but I'm sort of a Boston-centric snob

Yes Cambridge... both Harvard and MIT are nice and definitely unique. Both are open places with stuff for the public to see/do.

Harvard Sq is a fun place and the Harvard Yard is just what you might expect it to be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha...

Cambridge is a little more difficult than Boston because it's a bunch of discrete areas (squares) separated by nothing great.

thanks for all the advice

Boston blends together nicely with one area leading to the next. In fact its hard to get lost in Boston without stumbling across...

something else you wanted to do.

To keep this from being strictly about Boston. There's Tanglewood www.bso.org/bso/index.js... which has a lot of events happening now...

...It's the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home so it's mostly classical music.

ohh i love classical music

Also there's the Cape. The easiest advice is to find your way to Provincetown en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr...

Boston, a little detour to Cambridge, the Cape (maybe Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard instead) and then something in Western MA...

...like Tanglewood. That's probably a pretty good summary of the MA experience.

so i'm all caught up on things to do - thanks for the link! I'll have to keep referring to this so i can occupy the next few weekends

Have fun. This has me thinking about the limitations of typical travel guides. There must be a better way. I can imagine something like...

...Yelp (yelp.com) but organized into user submitted itineraries that stitch together the disconnected places.