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Oct. 21st, 2009 08:30 pmObama is coming to my campus on Friday to talk about energy. (No, I'm not going - it's an auditorium that seats 1250, on a campus of 10,000 students. The odds were not in my favor.) We found out last night, and now everytime I go somewhere on campus, by the return trip there are signs up about buildings or rooms being closed on Friday. I'm hoping no one does anything stupid - mix a campus full of students who are long on ingenuity and short on common sense, who think they have a god-given right to be anywhere on campus, including roofs, tunnels, and shafts, with the Secret Service and things have the potential to go horribly horribly wrong. I'm sure I'm not nearly as excited about all of this as the Secret Service is, though. (I much prefer the president at a distance.)
I met with a professor today about grad school. (I haven't been posting about it, but I have been back and forth and yes and no on the grad school thing over the past several weeks.) "Let me give you a list of places you should think about," she told me. She gave me three to apply to for sure, and then a list of others to think about. She also warned me off some schools - "they have people doing interesting work, but their students don't go anywhere," she said. She also told me that I can't stay where I am - they almost never admit their own undergrads. "Not written in stone," she said, "but written in wet cement." Bah - I would have liked to stay here.
Finally: The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.
ETA: Do you know what's amazing about syntax, the field? How often you'll be reading a paper on a contentious issue only to find "are you calling me racist?" and then the counter response will be "yes, I am!" or "no, you're just dumb". Were it not for the months-long delays, it would be prime f_w-style stuff.
I met with a professor today about grad school. (I haven't been posting about it, but I have been back and forth and yes and no on the grad school thing over the past several weeks.) "Let me give you a list of places you should think about," she told me. She gave me three to apply to for sure, and then a list of others to think about. She also warned me off some schools - "they have people doing interesting work, but their students don't go anywhere," she said. She also told me that I can't stay where I am - they almost never admit their own undergrads. "Not written in stone," she said, "but written in wet cement." Bah - I would have liked to stay here.
Finally: The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.
ETA: Do you know what's amazing about syntax, the field? How often you'll be reading a paper on a contentious issue only to find "are you calling me racist?" and then the counter response will be "yes, I am!" or "no, you're just dumb". Were it not for the months-long delays, it would be prime f_w-style stuff.