Monday, November 27, 2006
Yesterday I drove up to the University of Washington to visit their Mathematics department. I’ve spent a summer in Seattle and I have a few friends there, so it might be the kind of place I’d like to stay for five years.
I got a chance to speak to the Director of Graduate Studies, which went pretty well if uneventful. I made two pretty terrible blunders, though. First, I admitted that I was a little rusty, having been out of school for two years. He told me that I “could apply to a Masters instead,” which kind of hurt. The other was asking if it was uncommon to take a leave of absence (the answer is very much so). Next time I talk to a department, I’ll try not to sound like I don’t know what I’m doing.
Maybe I need to approach these meetings with questions like, “What can you offer me, the future Fields Medalist, to get me to come here?” Yeah, people love it when you say that.
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