The Manifesto

I remember coming home to winter break during my freshman year at the Bo'. I had just taken Sociology 101 and found that I could no longer sit through Julia Roberts telling young college girls that they could 'have their cake and eat it, too' in Mona Lisa Smile. A light bulb had gone off and school was interfering my enjoyment of hackneyed truisms. As the years passed, these moments accumulated and Stuff White People Like, which I could have liked years back, is now sophomoric for mistaking class markers with race.

This summer, I've been faithfully watching Boston Med and discussing it with anyone that would listen (it helped that Doc Firewall made a cameo in the premier). I remember watching the Hopkins one ten years back. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a nerd and I'm an especial sucker for hospital shows. The series just wrapped up last night and while I'm sad to see it go, school is once again interfering because even as I sobbed through the human interest tear jerk, I kept seeing missed opportunities the producers should have taken. Like discussing Mass Health. And AG's Checklist (side rant: how can you talk about ER visits and health care for kids in Boston without discussing Mass Health? Or any part of the state health reform? And with multiple surgeries featured each episode, it was almost irresponsible to feature Harvard hospitals without any mention of The Checklist. They got an episode of ER to feature the list and they couldn't show five seconds of it in action in AG's hospitals?). I've got one more year of school left, and whatever I learn better not mess with my enjoyment of Gossip Girl. That's all I'm saying.