As a stop to go back to airport, we stopped and visited Boston College which has a special meaning to me – Thank you again for believing A’s potential. The campus, buildings, town, staffs, and students were beautiful and I was having a hard time to hold myself from bowing my heads down to earth to this institution. Plus, now I don’t have any regrets on the deposit I blew up on here. BC deserves well enough to take my money although it was small ๐
After having a dinner with my buddy’s son who are attending Cornell, we had to leave to east to finish the last major driving of this trip ๐ There has been lot of questions and debates on which route is better for anyone who needs to go east from Ithaca whether to go with I-81/I-90 via Syracuse after shorter local roads or I-88 after longer drive of local roads – The main point of discussions were the safety -especially at night- and road conditions as two route only have 15-30min difference.
After quick thought, I decided to take I-88 with the idea that it will be okay if I can reach I-88 before the sunset ๐ and it was a success although the local roads were slightly slippery and had New York State Patrol following me for any opportunity(?) for speeding at local roads ๐
Anyhow I ended up enjoying the drive in dark in the middle of nowhere/mountains in I-88, and successfully merged into I-90/Thruway at Albany and continued to east via NY Thruway and Mass Pike which was full force construction mode ๐ -maybe 1/3 of Mass Pike drive was on reduced lanes due to midnight constructions.
The main reason we drove west to Syracuse was to check out Cornell at Ithaca which is 1 hour away from Syracuse ๐ Cornell was beautiful and classy as I imagined and I truly like the school sitting on a beautiful campus structure (I hate the statement, which NYU always uses, that the City is the campus … ๐ )
Also, as a not-well-prepared MBA applicant in 20 years ago, Cornell’s Johnson was my realistic & humble target school when I was preparing my MBA at then and it has remained as my mental debt that I didn’t choose to enroll after admitted. So this trip is my gentle payback after 20 years ๐ – although I think I somewhat paid back to Cornell with A’s admission result this year ๐
The true gem experience was checking out CALS Dairy Bar at CALS building in hot summer – one of the best ice creams I had in recent years ๐
Anyhow – it was a great and very informative visit and I wish Cornell’s path and my family’s path might cross again! Although I consider myself still a man of Blue blood, go Big Red!
After losing soul during the rides and getting sun-burnt on all arms and faces, drove to northwest to Syracuse, NY. (and believe paid countless tolls in Mass Spike and NY Thruway ๐ )
Happen to find Dave’s hot chicken and it was great although it taught me the lesson that hot chicken without Korean sauce is an insult to hot chicken ๐
The Skyler hotel in Syracuse was a kind of experience of 1800’s old building renovated to hotel ๐ very comfortable hotel except cracking sounds from the floor ๐
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