My trip to Cambridge!

This weekend I had the privilege of flying to Cambridge, MA for a conference held at Harvard University. While it was an extremely short trip getting in Friday night and leaving Sunday afternoon, I had a great time looking at some of the sites around the area. I also really enjoyed the conference held that Saturday. It was called the "New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports." There was a nice mixture of professionals and academic attending. For example, there was a columnist from the New York Times, an analyst for the Denver Nuggets, some pretty famous academic statisticians, someone from the US National Olympic Committee, etc. One thing I noticed from the conference is that most people are interested in three sports: basketball, baseball, and football. I enjoyed sharing my poster with people and hope that they gleaned some knowledge from it.

So after walking around Harvard campus, I realized that while BYU is a very clean nice campus, it is nothing compared to the architectural beauty of Harvard. It was so nice to walk around campus Sunday morning while there weren't many students around. I tried to take lots of pictures. Sorry I'm not in any of them--I was the one taking all of them. If you would like to see more pictures, you can click on the link to the right that says "pictures".

This is called the "Old Burying Ground" and is found right by Harvard campus. The sign said it was a "burial place of early settlers, tory landowners and slaves, soldiers, presidents of Harvard, and prominent men of Cambridge. 1635." Most of the writing on the headstones had worn away.

Here is a picture of an administration building. Let's play, "Name that Column Type!" See if you can guess the three types of columns that are displayed in the following pictures. (Kathryn and Steven--this is for you!)

I wanted to get some of the architecture up close. This building was called "Memorial Hall". It was probably one of my favorite buildings there.


Here is another picture of the same building farther away.


Here is a picture of the hotel I stayed at, "The Sheraton Commander". I am standing pretty close to Harvard campus while taking this picture.

Here is a picture of their main library (I'm assuming it is the main library. It was a huge building!) Here is another column type you can try and identify!
This reminded me of the old angel Moroni on the Nauvoo temple. It was on top of a church building.
Here is the third and final column type. I thought it was cool I found all three Greek column types around campus!

While most of the campus looks old, there were a select few buildings that were noticeably newer than the rest. This is the science center and the building in which the conference was held. I kind of wish they kept with the old brick style...
The only thing that would have made the trip even better was if Trevor could have come! The night before I left I was really wishing we had just spent the money and bought him a plane ticket. We will have to make a trip back east when we have more time to see the sites.