Monday, April 9, 2007
Just got back from visiting the University of Maryland. Maryland never got back to me about my application, and I had assumed they rejected me. I emailed them exactly a week ago asking where they were with my application, and they sent a reply saying they were going to accept me without funding. Which is the grad school equivalent of tying a $15,000 carrot on five year long stick.
Then last Thursday, someone decided not to go to UMD, which opened up a seat for me. So I had to make an emergency trip to Maryland today to go check it out.
One thing that stood out about visiting Maryland over Washington and Oregon was the vast surplus of money they were throwing around. Maryland was able to pay for my lodging and car rental from New York, which believe me was not cheap.
But the best part? And the end of my visit, I got a goodie bag from Maryland containing a t-shirt and a USB flash drive. Okay, now I’ma go download 128MB of… math.
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