After being a part time lurker, then later a part time poster on this BBS I find myself in a position where I will have to pull back.

Earlier this year I was accepted into graduate school, and I am leaving tomorrow to the town that will be my residence for the next two years. Unfortunately, from what I am told a MBA program and free time can be mutually exclusive, so I am pulling back on all of my liesure activities until I find how academic life will effect me. I may be back, but I'd prefer not to make any commitments I can't honor.

I have alot of fond memories of this BBS and the discussions within it. It really is a great place, with intelligent and fun discussions. Everyone, please recognize that you have found some place special and work hard to keep it that way.

Personal request to Anarch -- can you post the equation which proves that 2 x 2 does not equal 4? I'd be happy to see it again.

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Originally posted by AMichaelG:
Personal request to Anarch -- can you post the equation which proves that 2 x 2 does not equal 4? I'd be happy to see it again.

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2 x 2 != 4? I don't remember that offhand. Lemme think about it for a bit, see what I can remember.

And we'll be sorry to see you go. Hope you'll delurk periodically from the cesspool that is graduate school.

- Anarch
Not yet the Eternal Graduate Student, but only because Eternity ain't over yet...

Hope you have fun along the way of learning a lot.

Take care of yourself ...

Anyway, good luck, and I hope you enjoy it!

Kahty

Good luck with it!

Thank you everyone for your well wishes.

To answer a question or two ...

I am presently in Ithaca, waiting for classes to start at Cornell. Unfortunately, the transition was not as smooth as I thought it would be.

Ithaca is renowned for its cold weather. So, I packed plenty of warm winter clothes. What I had not anticipated, however, was the area being hit with a freak heat wave, pushing the temperature into the high 80's low 90's.

Back when I was in DC, this type of situation was easy to handle. Stay indoors, when traveling outside wear plenty of cool clothes, etc. However: I have no air conditioning, because I am moving in I have to spend a great deal of time outdoors doing heavy lifting, and my summer clothes are sparse.

It also turns out all of the air conditioning units in this town -- and one or two counties over -- are sold out, making things very interesting.

Oh, and I have to wait around for the cable people. I've flipped my schedule, and am now doing most of the hard work at night, when it is a mere 70 degrees outside.

Still, I am having fun. Everything seems new and interesting, and this is the first time in over a decade I have lived anywhere other than the South.

You will have lots of distractions - you're only a short train ride away from the city! While your schoolwork might not keep you too busy to come to Slipstream, having NYC that nearby might!

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Originally posted by AMichaelG:
Ithaca is renowned for its cold weather. So, I packed plenty of warm winter clothes. What I had not anticipated, however, was the area being hit with a freak heat wave, pushing the temperature into the high 80's low 90's.

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As BunRab said, the entire NE is hot every summer - well, more than hot for many of us who have been having record-setting temperatures. In Toronto (north of the 49th parallel), we had our second-hottest July on record! The city hosted World Youth Days last week and I don't know how the 800,000 pilgrims got through the 3-hour Papal mass last Sunday at 32C/90+F temperatures - we hid in the house.

I don't think you'll really have to worry about genuinue cold until late October.

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My karma drove over your dogma.

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Originally posted by BunRab:
Oooh, Cornell is good. And winter WILL be cold.

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Welcome to Uptstate New York if it ain=92t freezing, boiling hot, foggy, a blizard, raining, sleeting, or other nasty weather you aren=92t in Upstate New York. Oh you=92re in a mild area of New York=85. Try going a few miles further north or towards Buffalo. Hello Lake Effect. Cornell has a reputation for being miserable to freshmen students during the winter. One would think they wouldn=92t complain about having to climb that =93little=94 hill that their dorms are at the bottom of during a mild New York winter.

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Originally posted by Bella:
I don't think you'll really have to worry about genuinue cold until late October.

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