to beatoa: awesome! i want to do work and travel too but im gg to grad soon so it's either work or travel or grad trip. but i've got other commitments. IF ONLY work and travel can be done when u are working or sth.
anw, was wondering if 5days to ny and 2 days each for philly(mayb 1 day even), boston and dc is sufficient. btw has anyone been to hershey's chocolate world? was qte intrugued by their hands on experience. haha
5 days in nyc is definitely very sufficient, in fact, u may get sick of the city even before the 5 days is up. wat was most memorable abt nyc was times square and central park really.
1 day in philly is enough, pple go to philly just to see the liberty bell and the constitution place.
2 days in dc will be better, refer to my above post on wat u can do in dc.
try to allocate maybe 1 and a half days in boston, it's a very charming and old city, almost like london with harry potter-like shophouses if u get wat i mean. as usual, visit harvard, mit, charles river, quincy market and faneuil hall. u may also pop by chinatown to try the boston lobster (1 lobster for each person!).
as for hershey's choc world, i think it's quite similar to sg's but im not sure abt tt where clothes are concerned. the one at hershey sells all kinds of clothing and i tot the variety at hershey is larger as compared to sg's but i could be wrong coz i haven really been to the one at sg's.
and then u also can take the free 'boat' ride, not really on water, just a moving platform and then it will bring u to the different stations, showing how hershey chocs are made. im not sure if they are even real machines but more of educational style, not really hands-on u see. so overall, the place is not really a must-go but if really sg doesn't even have hershey clothing, then yea the place is worth going.
for dinner. 
