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Hibba Meraay
The Cool Realities of Living in the Nation’s Capital
By Hibba Meraay
Spring 2015
Although I’ve made a few trips down to DC over the years, this semester was my first true DC emersion experience. As any diligent list maker would do, I set out to make a DC bucket list early in January. I included all the trademark tourist sites and activities like the monuments, Smithsonian museums, and Cherry Blossom festival, but as I checked more and more items off my list I realized that there are some intangible DC experiences that can’t be captured in a list. Here are two things about living in DC that you might not anticipate but I believe are an integral part of the DC experience.