The Only Time $0 Is Better Than $100 Is When You’re Paying For The Ticket

Posted by Bella Wang on September 25, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Cost for regular people: $15. Cost to you as a Harvard student: $0. Ka-ching!

Cost for regular people: $15. Cost to you as a Harvard student: $0. Ca-ching!

Now that we’ve all returned from our summers and are once again acclimating to life as a starving college student (presumably in preparation for our futures as starving grad students, starving artists, and, uh, starving investment bankers), it’s time to look at the bright side and remember all the free stuff Boston has to offer.

Today, the classy, artistic, and historical stuff:

The Museum of Fine Arts is free for all Harvard students with ID. That’s a collection of paintings, sculpture, photography, and pottery so vast that you’ll be exhausted after seeing about 1/10 of it. Oh, and don’t miss the giant green baby head sculptures by the entrance! Inspired.

The Institute of Contemporary Art is free for all Harvard students. And the building — a glassy jagged work perched above the harbor — has been called the “the most beautiful piece of architecture” in Boston. The Science Center is jealous.

Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is pretty, has flowers and trees, and is free to visit from sunrise to sunset every day except major holidays. Located at the Forest Hills T-Stop on the Orange Line. Add to that some stolen HUDS food, and you have a free picnic, too!

Then there’s the Bunker Hill monument for those of you that like climbing 221-foot granite obelisks for fun (possibly because they’re historic but probably because they’re phallic symbols).

Finally, we have the USS Constitution, otherwise known as “Old Ironsides,” which is currently a museum celebrating, among other things, the grimy life of sailors in the early nineteenth century and 200 years of glorious bloodshed.

Additionally, September 26th is Museum Day — which means FREE  admission into virtually any museum you want to go to! So get out there and explore.

Happy culture-ifying!  Next week, I’ll get to the interesting stuff, i.e. free food and wine tastings.

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