Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm going to be spending next summer in Pennsylvania about an hour north of Philly because I got an internship there. It will be exciting.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm going to be spending next summer in Pennsylvania about an hour north of Philly because I got an internship there. It will be exciting.

Near Trenton?

Near Allentown.

[TJ in Oregon]

Ah, the famed avalanche of assigned readings in US university classes... I'm dreading it too (classes start tomorrow).

Not so much for STEM majors.  My CS/math reading assignments take less than 20 minutes, though the psets and projects take quite a bit longer.  Econ takes a little more time though.

STEM majors get long problem sets instead. Reading is an insignificant part of the workload in most courses.

[TJ in Oregon]

To be fair, I didn't realize quite how much the views of evangelical preachers contradicts my religion until I got to grad school. I still consider them something of a wayward ally most of the time. It would be a wonderful alternative reality indeed if the differences between Evangelical Protestantism and Catholicism were the worst we faced in society.

On the private school thing I was never able to detect a substantial difference in the behavior of my friends who went there or public schools. However, I did have one friend tell in an argument once that I would be a lot different if I went to a public school rather than a Catholic school. Of course I did go to a public school and have never enrolled in a Catholic school in my life.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm currently organizing an event at GW that will be kind of like a mock primary for the presidential election, and takes place shortly before the Iowa Caucus. I have a bunch of ideas I'm working on, but I was wondering if anyone here could suggest something I could do to make it better. I was thinking the students (only GW students can vote) select the candidate they support, and offer additional information like Party ID, home state, political idealogy, etc and then use that to make some cool maps and charts. Thoughts?

Sounds great!  I'd be curious how the party-ID breakdown would look for politcally-interested GW students.  I know at Stanford the stats are about 9:1 Democrat:Republican.

9:1? Yikes. Even Case was only about 3:1 and UW Madison is more somewhere around 5:3 despite being known for being a very liberal school.

[TJ in Oregon]

I'm at a very minor basketball game with 200 people here, but Peter King is also in attendance. What an oddity.

I saw Rick Santorum at Mass once when I was in Cleveland.

[TJ in Oregon]

It just occurred to me that I might not have a real person job^TM until after I graduate and I'm terrified, since that means I'll be working fake jobs for maybe the next two or three summers. No idea what recourse I have aside from chain-smoking. Grr.

You could take up running again. That's helped me through a lot of rough summers.