Remember when the onset of autumn meant heading back to school? And the changing of the leaves meant changing your mailing address from your parents’ house to your shoebox-size dorm room? We hate to be the ones to break this to you, but we’re all grown up now (for the most part, anyway), and autumn is different than it used to be. While September is a return to routine — the college students are swarming the city, the T is packed again, and network television is starting its new season of bad reality programs — there’s no doubt that it’s also the perfect time to start over. It’s like New Year’s for the young professional set: a chance to refresh and renew our dedication to our jobs, our relationships, our social lives. Since we traded in our red plastic cups for red wine flights, our idea of Boston nightlife has become a bit more sophisticated. So we’ve rounded up a few alternatives to the raging nights of our younger years. But don’t worry: if you still spend Thursday nights at your alma mater’s watering hole, we won’t judge.
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