Transneptune » academia http://transneptune.net beyond the Kuiper Belt, over the sea Thu, 10 May 2012 06:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Berkeley http://transneptune.net/2009/11/17/berkeley/ http://transneptune.net/2009/11/17/berkeley/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:27:07 +0000 Kit http://transneptune.net/2009/11/17/berkeley/ First impressions: I like this place a lot more. It reminds me of Cambridge, MA: the urban environment is vital, not kept at arm’s length, and has and independent life. Also, the area is denser with people I know—not something to sneeze at.

Yesterday, went to a ling department colloquium, and had great fun there and at the post-talk reception. It had a pervasively academic feel.

I’ve come away from both visits with more targeted ideas of how to write my Statements of Purpose. That’ll be good. If you catch me on I’M the next week or so, yell at me to write. I don’t expect I’ll take much cajoling.

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