Word: busful
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...commute across town for work every day, I protectively clutch my latest book as the bus rattles me back and forth. Still, an almost strange and funny sense of purposefulness persists, even if I’m only one page further by the time I arrive. I am beginning to master a tiny piece of knowledge, beginning to become an expert on an obscure little piece of academia, and the freedom of summer has paradoxically given me the drive and self-control to move forward...
...report to work in Cambridge every weekday, but my family and many of my friends are miles away in Manhattan. And so now, in my predicament, the four-hour bus ride nearly every weekend is worth...
...gotten the schedule down to a science. Get on a Chinatown bus early on Friday afternoon—exhausted after the few hours I’ve spent working at the offices of Harvard Magazine (on top of an endless production night preparing The Crimson for its morning publication). Arrive in the city in time to catch a show, dinner or (if I’m lucky) swing-dancing at Lincoln Center. After a weekend of friends, family and fun, hop on another bus on Sunday afternoon.And for less than the cost of a long cab ride...
...first month in the city, however, just left me questioning even more not only if I could justly be considered a life-long New Yorker, but also if I wanted to be. A stalled subway car and a crabby bus driver put me off of New York’s famed public transportation system. The slow-moving crowds on my morning walk down Wall Street left me wishing for an expansion of Central Park...
While this building scandal might have cast more doubt on my choice to live in New York, it instead reinvigorated my love of a city made great by the variety of people that you can bump into on the bus, in a chic restaurant or in your lobby. The heart of New York does not change with the migration of yuppies to a new neighborhood or the destruction of a landmark. It exists in the wondrous possibility that your super is in the mafia, the cast of “Sex and the City” is shooting on your...