Recruitment weekend
Feb. 11th, 2008 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirHaste Street, on the Feast of Ste. Scholastica
Recruitment weekend is reminding me all over again why I chose Berkeley. Went to Prof. Rine's house for dinner--if I could own a house half that nice as a professor someday, I'd be perfectly happy with my lot in life--and once again enjoyed listening to all the opinionated conversations among the faculty. ^_^ Topics covered included creationism, religion versus science, biological basis for religious instinct, state of science education, whether tenure should expire, why there aren't grants earmarked for "old researchers", U.S. historical documents, Crohn's disease, parasites, HDTV...
Plus, there was an unusually bizarre set of coincidences this evening. One of the recruits I met had gone to high school in New Jersey; the name sounded familiar so I asked him if he knew Joe, who was in kendo with me in college. It turned out that the two of them had gone to the same high school and graduated in the same year. Then after the dinner, when we returned to the hotel where the recruits are staying, who do you think I saw in the lobby? None other than Joe himself, apparently interviewing off-schedule for another graduate program at Berkeley. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if he's going to run into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladydaera at UCSF; it would be terribly amusing.
Just came back from Game Night, which was ostensibly organized for the benefit of the non-drinkers among the recruits. Of course, no recruits actually showed up tonight, which meant that the grad students just enjoyed themselves. I've come to the realization that I'm fairly obnoxious when it comes to trivia guessing games, though it was a lot of fun. E.g. objecting to the description of Charlemagne as "French king who restored Catholicism" and correcting the description of Ralph Waldo Emerson as an "existentialist". I guess a token liberal arts education condemns you to being a compulsive nitpicker for life. >_>;;
Yours &c.
Recruitment weekend is reminding me all over again why I chose Berkeley. Went to Prof. Rine's house for dinner--if I could own a house half that nice as a professor someday, I'd be perfectly happy with my lot in life--and once again enjoyed listening to all the opinionated conversations among the faculty. ^_^ Topics covered included creationism, religion versus science, biological basis for religious instinct, state of science education, whether tenure should expire, why there aren't grants earmarked for "old researchers", U.S. historical documents, Crohn's disease, parasites, HDTV...
Plus, there was an unusually bizarre set of coincidences this evening. One of the recruits I met had gone to high school in New Jersey; the name sounded familiar so I asked him if he knew Joe, who was in kendo with me in college. It turned out that the two of them had gone to the same high school and graduated in the same year. Then after the dinner, when we returned to the hotel where the recruits are staying, who do you think I saw in the lobby? None other than Joe himself, apparently interviewing off-schedule for another graduate program at Berkeley. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if he's going to run into
ladydaera at UCSF; it would be terribly amusing.Just came back from Game Night, which was ostensibly organized for the benefit of the non-drinkers among the recruits. Of course, no recruits actually showed up tonight, which meant that the grad students just enjoyed themselves. I've come to the realization that I'm fairly obnoxious when it comes to trivia guessing games, though it was a lot of fun. E.g. objecting to the description of Charlemagne as "French king who restored Catholicism" and correcting the description of Ralph Waldo Emerson as an "existentialist". I guess a token liberal arts education condemns you to being a compulsive nitpicker for life. >_>;;
Yours &c.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:47 am (UTC)... by the way, a really stupid question from me. ^_^; What do you do on February 29 when you have to update? Make up a feast? Just say "February 29"? Find something else? Postpone it?
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