Summer of 2023 – Northeast Visit – The Home of the Ivy Leagues

My family and I decided to take a one-week vacation to the Northeast to visit some of the cities, sites, and most outstanding educational institutions. We took a road trip starting from Boston to Niagara Falls, Canada. We passed through New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. We visited Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and MIT. We also visited New York and saw some tourist attractions, such as Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center Memorial, and the Observatory. 

Harvard University is an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a high ranking in numerous fields, including medicine and law. Tourists included curious and eager students like me. Established in the 1600s, the campus is enormous and very decorative. The buildings are all built with red bricks to match the color of the Harvard logo. Harvard Square, which seemed very busy with students and tourists. It has various restaurants and "The Coop", which sells Harvard gear and books. Most of the books are authored by Harvard Professors, which justifies the reputation of the high-ranking research school! 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) is located relatively close to Harvard, about 10-15 minutes away by car. MIT is the country's second-best college, noted for its STEM courses such as computer science, engineering, physics, etc. MIT is a pioneer for its research and collaboration between industry, government, and academia. MIT campus is not as vast and ornamental as the Harvard campus, but it is placed along the Charles River and provides a lovely and clean perspective of Boston. Many people sail their boats along the river and walk, jog, or cycle on the river bank.

Yale University is a private institution in New Haven, Connecticut. It's a highly-ranked Ivy League University. Yale offers many popular courses such as medicine, Computer Science, Psychology, Biological and Biomedical Science, and History Engineering. Yale's campus is vast, with several buildings constructed of grey brickwork. The buildings were fashioned in an antique style because the most of them were constructed in the late 1700s.

Princeton University is a private research institution in Princeton, New Jersey. It is the highest-ranked school in the country. Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Public Policy, and Psychology are some of the most popular majors at Princeton University. Princeton's campus is relatively large, with several restaurants and shopping areas nearby for students to sell their wares. The structures, like Yale University, have old and magnificent architecture. The Nassau Hall has an Ivy planted for each graduating batch going back to the 1800s!

I could not tour many additional Ivy League schools(UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell). I plan to visit them next year before the college applications. These Universities started around the same time because they all sprang from the Original 13 colonies and have been around for a similar amount of time.