Speaking of graduate schools... What do you think about the University of Vermont? I know that I want to go somewhere with mountains and snow, so I'd been leaning towards moving west. Maybe Oregon, Washington or Northern California, because yes I love rain. Jason wants to live anywhere with an airline hub. Matt wants to live in Southern California... but I like having all 4 seasons... and I don't surf. Not that I couldn't learn. In fact I'd love to learn, but I'm just not a hot weather person nor am I a "big city" person. I don't want to deal with traffic jams.
Appealing things about Vermont:
1) 4 seasons... Mild summer, colorful fall, freezing snowy winter, muddy spring.
2) Mountains.
3) Both kinds of skiing.
4) On Lake Champlain
5) The country's smallest big city... Burlington is only 40,000 with a metro area of 150,000 or so.
6) Graduate schools for both math and public health.
7) Progressive, liberal.... blue state america... these people elected Dean for pete's sake.
Cons:
1) No baseball stadiums... or any other pro sports teams for that matter.
2) Far away from family in the midwest and friends headed west.
3) Being the one with an accent.
4) No tornados... yes this is a con. I love summer storm systems, storm chasing.
5) Too liberal? Do I really want to be at the right end of the spectrum?
Do you have an opinion about Vermont? Feedback is appreciated.
Tuesday, January 25
Change classes two weeks into semester
WOOHOO! So I got waitlisted last november for a class I wanted to take and they called yesterday saying there was an opening. Now the class itself isn't all that exciting, but it's far better then the class I had chosen to replace it. Just a few reasons:
1) New class is web based... so now I just have class MWF 8:30-11:30
2) I sit at a computer 15+ hours a week and get paid. So I'd like to think that at some point in there I could get some web based learning done.
3) No more Professor Han. The crazy man who drones on for 40 minutes about obscure theory and proofs and then only has 10 minutes to do an example problem, leaving the entire class confused and angry.
4) New class is Epidiemiology. It really is time I decide whether or not I want to go to Public Health Graduate School. After Biostatistics I felt fairly blah about it, so maybe I'll like Epidiemiology. If I don't, that's one more option crossed off the list.
Hopefully it all goes well.
1) New class is web based... so now I just have class MWF 8:30-11:30
2) I sit at a computer 15+ hours a week and get paid. So I'd like to think that at some point in there I could get some web based learning done.
3) No more Professor Han. The crazy man who drones on for 40 minutes about obscure theory and proofs and then only has 10 minutes to do an example problem, leaving the entire class confused and angry.
4) New class is Epidiemiology. It really is time I decide whether or not I want to go to Public Health Graduate School. After Biostatistics I felt fairly blah about it, so maybe I'll like Epidiemiology. If I don't, that's one more option crossed off the list.
Hopefully it all goes well.
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