Word: acela
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Amtrack was clearly looking out for the late-January travelers with their release of the newer, sleeker and faster Acela train. Apparently it should have taken more than three hours to travel from New Haven, the location of that inferior bulldog-crazed psuedo-university, to Boston's South Station train station. But the ride was barely longer than two hours! The other Harvard students (who had also been sucked into that embarrassment of a college and pathetic excuse of a "town") on the Acela train rejoiced at the speed with which they were whisked away to less hostile territory...
...speedier train between Harvard and Yale might, in fact, accomplish a lot more than decrease travel time; it might stir up our school spirit as well. With faster getaway rates and quicker escapes, the Acela train might just introduce a new era of competition and rivalry between the two schools. Forget channeling our energy into just the Harvard-Yale football game, we'll be out there for the fencing rounds, crew races, ballroom dancing competitions and squash matches as well...
...Acela? It stands for Accelerated Cantab-Eli Locomotion Adversary...
That said, Amtrak is rolling out its new Acela Regional service at South Station this weekend and I, for one, am pretty excited. The train should make the trip from here to New York, where there is not quite as much snow as there is here, about an hour faster than the current five-hour trek through New England. If I were going home for break, it would be a wonderful way to get there...
...significant extracurricular commitment, I'm not going to be able to leave Cambridge for awhile, probably not until after the next round of exams. I might never get to ride Acela Regional, which is actually only an interim service before new, tilting trainsets are put into service on the Northeast Corridor this summer. That would be a shame. From the train, the view of snowy fields is pretty nice...