The main reason that I chose boston college over the Virginia Tech was not their football team, but it was the fact that the weather was better. One of the many benefits that I got from coming to college was the fact that I got to travel a lot and I was able to do that in style. I used to live in Boston but I have always loved Virginia Tech. So, I have always been interested in what their football team was up to.
It should be noted that I am currently attending school in Boston, so the weather is pretty similar to what I’m used to. On the bright side, I’ve gained a lot of weight since coming to college, so I can still dress like a geek in the cold.
Well, I guess there’s one big difference between those who think that Boston is more of a “college town” than a “tech town” and those who think that Virginia Tech is more of a “tech town” than a “college town”. Tech is a college town and Boston is a college town, but Boston is a college town and Virginia Tech is a college town.
Well, the tech school isn’t really a tech town and Boston isn’t a college town either. When I was in Boston, I lived in a town that had a lot of college students. I don’t think I lived in a tech college town and I do think I lived in a college town, but if I lived in a college town, I would think Virginia Tech would be a college town.
My experience in Boston was that college students were a bit more tolerant of me than I was of them. In the city I lived in, I was always walking around with my hands in my pockets, as if I was afraid that some random college kid would steal my backpack, but that didn’t happen in Boston.
I think you could argue that college students in Boston are not exactly as tolerant as Virginia Tech students because college students tend to be more socially aware, and they have more options for social interaction with the opposite sex. The latter does also account for the relative lack of tolerance that you are subject to in other parts of the world. However, I don’t think you can make a case for any sort of tolerance in the tech field.
One of my most frequently asked questions when I had to come up to Boston to teach at Boston College was, “Is there any place in Boston you would rather be?” In this case, I would have to say, “I’d rather be in my house in Virginia,” since my house is currently being remodeled into a new house that will be available soon for sale.
In other parts of the world, I think its all relative. For one, most places have a lot of religious and cultural differences. For another, when you are born into a new country they generally make it a point to treat you with respect. The relative lack of tolerance in Boston is even more startling when you realize that while I am a native speaker of my native language (Mandarin), my roommates are not.
My roommate is a native speaker of English, but he is not from Beijing at all, and my wife is a native speaker of Mandarin. So while these two people share a lot of common ground in common language and culture, they have very different standards of what is acceptable and socially acceptable. In the US, you can only speak to someone if you have a conversation, you can’t just walk up and start talking to them unless there is a conversation.
In China, you can do anything that you want. In other words: you can talk to them if you want. It’s called “gai chong”: you can talk to them if you want.
