The Sweet has a suite in her new dorm. I don't know that I've ever known a person so enthralled by college life. Yeah, we've all known students who love the party scene, but Jessie loves her classes, the professors--she even likes the homework. Although she is a biology major (with a concentration in neuroscience), she is taking a couple of English classes which she considers to be the cat's pajamas. Who knows, maybe someday she'll write the great American novel we've all been meaning to write. It's always been a bit of a disappointment to me that my sister Alice didn't pursue a career in writing (she wrote some short stories in college that clearly demonstrated that she had the talent), but maybe she's sort of passed something along to her namesake (Jessie Alice).
We had a weekend of cultural splendor at Colby. First we went to the American Modern exhibit at the museum, which is a moving collection of photographs (by Walker Evans and others) from the Great Depression, then we enjoyed the ballet performance of Kathleen Breen Combes and Yury Yanowsky of the Boston Ballet. To top it off, the woman in the room next to us at the hotel sang arias late into the night. She had a beautiful voice, too, but what she was doing in Waterville, Me, we'll never know.