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To: combat_boots

Yes, he is quite social.


100 posted on 04/06/2012 11:56:51 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

OK. He’s social.

In that case, you all need to investigate the crime and party stats, as well as the prevalence of club culture, if you haven’t already.

Are you investigating the reputations of the faculty or the library size and contents of the U of M? Or the ongoing research in his field of interest?

I have this theory that the size and contents of the library and the research ‘stable’ of projects/faculty indicate the strength of the program. If that’s satisfactory, as a student, you then can get what you want out of the education - and become the owner of your education and the institutional resources available to you for the time you partake. What you do with that is your own responsibility.

Having gone to my grad school during a period when it had become a party school, I was upset to wade through the beer bottles on the sidewalk. So, I grabbed myself a carrel and holed up in the library, went to conferences, made contacts and, in general, made a nuisance of myself to those profs who appeared to have a lot on the ball and projects going on. Access to unpublished dissertations and draft articles in magazines were key to my own work as I moved forward.

Fortunately, I didn’t have to live around the university. I think I would have had to become a black belt had that been true.


115 posted on 04/06/2012 1:49:50 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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