You’re going to start the evening at the wonderful Morgan Library and Museum and have such a thoroughly good time that when your professor suggests grabbing dinner and heading to the Whitney Museum, you happily and eagerly oblige. Get to Shake Shack with more than enough time to eat and get through the line, because you’ve been told it’ll be a pain to wait, as the lines get quite long. Eat a wonderful meal with the friends you’ve spent the week getting to know, and discuss your favorite parts of the trip so far over burgers and fries. At this point, you may begin to enjoy the conversation so much, in fact, that you lose track of time and realize you really should be getting to the line–it’s starting to get a bit long.
Approach the line for the museum that conveniently happens to sit right below the High Line. Take your professor up on her very kind offer to hold your spots in line while you kill time walking the High Line, taking in the beautiful view (pictured below). Keep an eye on the group messenger–she’ll send a link to the tickets you actually have to sign up for in order to get through the door. Panic, but only slightly, when the link doesn’t work and you receive this follow-up message: “My phone is about to lose juice–do you want me to hold the line?” Followed very quickly by this: “I have to go in or my ticket won’t work. The line is moving quick.” Rush back to the line in just shy of a sprint only to notice that your professor has already made it inside the museum and your link still isn’t working.
Resign yourself to the truth that you will not make it into the Whitney before their doors close, send a message to your professor, and hope her phone hasn’t run out of juice. Walk back up to the High Line and settle into a bench together, having a conversation that truly only English Majors would find interesting. Enjoy getting to know your new friends better, and laugh about how much that one hotel room costs for one single night (spoiler: it’s over $1k). Hope your professor has somehow been able to read your message so she doesn’t wait for you in the lobby of the museum past 9:30, and walk the entire High Line to a train station together. Get back to your rooms exhausted but fulfilled, and hope you have an equally eventful (yet hopefully slightly less stressful) day tomorrow.
