Summer studying

My summer semester of school started the beginning of July and just wrapped up yesterday. It's not exactly ideal to be in school in the summer but on the plus side the school's work load wasn't all that intense so I was able to do some fun things. One day before class I went up to Bryant Park where they had a big stage set up and on Wednesdays they had Broadway in the Park where they had performances from different Broadway musicals. It was alright but the music always means a lot more when you've actually seen the musical (and I haven't seen many).


Once a week I would have a lab that went until 8:30 at night, so on one of those nights I stopped in Hoboken on my way home and went to a "Movie Under the Stars". From the name you can figure out that it's a movie that they play outside and the night I went they were playing "Batman: The Dark Night". It was pretty cool the be watching a movie on the banks of the Hudson river with boats moving silently by and with the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building and the rest of the Manhattan skyline in the background.



I also started studying down at the main NYU campus which is right off of Washington Square Park. It's in a really nice area of the city and it's sort of fun to just go down there and wander around. The park itself is fun because it attracts all sorts of different people, making it a great place to take study breaks just to see what kind of people showed up that day.


With the mini Arc de Triomphe in the park, there is always a steady stream of tourists, but with the fountain there too, lots of locals young and old come down and play in the water. Apparently the park is a magnet for bands looking to make a quick buck and random people just playing for the heck of it. I've seen little rock bands, jazz bands, bagpipers, saxophone players, trumpeters, and tons of guitarists. It's funny to watch little groups form and then before you know it they're all playing and singing. Then there are people who just come and sit in the park and enjoy the oasis of green in the middle of the city.