Just Curious

Settling down in Cambridge

I have more or less settled down in my new hometown, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The environment here is gorgeous, and the people very nice and friendly. Yesterday I went jogging around Fresh Pond, and loved the scenery there.

Both my law school section leader and my new classmates seem to be very nice people. My section leader, Professor Jon Hanson, successfully (as far as I could feel) created a fairly laid-back yet intellectual atmosphere our first day in class. A graduate of Yale Law School himself, Professor Hanson places great emphasis on the underlying principles and social theories of the law. The first case we discussed has to deal with the McDonald's obesity case, which is fun. (We also watched the movie "Supersize Me!" and had a fast food dinner together!)

Today I went to worship in the Friends Meeting at Cambridge (http://www.fmcquaker.org) with my friend Jeff Hipp, whom I first met this last semester in New Jersey through our mutual friend Martin Kelley (http://www.nonviolence.org). There are some very interesting people here, and it's a large congregation, with more than a hundred people worshipping together. I also met Jonathan Vogel-Borne, Field Secretary of the New England Yearly Meeting, in person, and had a wonderful conversation with him.

Aside from all the new friends I've made, I am going to hang out with several Penn people next week as well. There are Andy, in his second year at Harvard Law; Anil, who's doing a very prestigious engineering internship at MIT; and Tara, an Master of Public Health student at Harvard who's already got a Ph.D. in political science from Penn under her belt. It should be very cool.

posted by James Chang @ 2:02 PM