But for all the differences, some things never change. Basketball is played with one ball and two baskets. Parties are still crowded as people bottleneck near the keg. Champion sweatshirts still cost Gucci prices. Bars still have Budweiser on tap.

However, there's still one big difference between Nebraska and Harvard. Walk into any bar in Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell me.

Home, Sweet Home

Sunday, I returned to Boston: streets were narrower, people walked faster and cars inched their way to cut off angles. I stepped into a bar and asked the bartender how he was and if if he could get me a Bud.

"Okay. How you doing? $2.50." I love this town.

Editor's Note--The author would still rather be in Baltimore, his home town.