"They fund people every year to come to the K-School. So I applied to the K-School and got in. It wasn't anything that I planned," Fineday says.

"It was really ironic that this was the school that they suggested I come to. [The Bush Foundation officials] didn't know that I had a daughter here," she adds.

According to both Lawson and Fineday, the mid-career program at the K-School is small and fairly tight-knit--two circumstances which Fineday said have contributed greatly to her stay in Cambridge.

"The K-School is the most wonderful place," Fineday says. "I have truly loved the year I've spent here. I wish I could spend another year here."

"We've made lots of really good friends at the K-School, so it's been great," Fineday says.

In fact, Fineday says that her younger daughter, who has attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School for the past year, has enjoyed their hiatus in Cambridge so much that she doesn't want to leave.

"She loves her high school and doesn't want to go back to Minnesota. She thinks that Minnesota is very boring compared to Cambridge," Fineday says.