Newquagmire said:
any opinions on baylor vs nyu?
I don't know much about either school, but it would seem (based on the rankings...and we all know how that goes...) that baylor is primed to shoot into the top ten at some point, so it would be an excellent choice. Furthermore, it seems their out of state tuition is comparable to some in-state rates (specifically the ohio schools) consequently you'll end up with less debt coming from Baylor. (oh...consider cost of living in ny versus texas...i'm sure there's a substantial difference) Finally, i'll temporarily shrug my personal feelings aside regarding the location issue and point out that texas doesn't get cold (except at night). ny does. horribly horribly cold. Texas will turn you into a bad$$ cowboy/girl ...um...cowperson. new york will turn you into a morning show newsanchor or the next contestant on the apprentice.
i'll be the first to admit that an ideal medical school would lock students into vast, dank caverns...caverns whose walls were lined with thousands and thousands of spools of EKG tape that must be read and discussed before dinner...caverns filled with the screams of interns who had inadvertantly enraged a slumbering frecklefrack beast. no one leaves these caverns...NOT one. until the spools have been analyzed, discussed, and woven into intricate origami sculptures of impressive scale.
the students are then marched, single file and silent, to their quarters where they are to study until lights out. these students are happy students because they are ignorant; unaware of what they are missing. The are utterly dependent, no care remains unaddressed for more than a few minutes at the most. what's important is that these students bring to bare the full intellectual capabilities we have instilled in them. To these students, location makes no difference--one cavern, or another. one highrise---or another ?
All the same
ok...after my bizarre not-quite-novellette, it may or may not be clear that the "location" factor is pretty much nil to me. for example: i got into eastern virginia and would love to live in the hampton roads area (beaches, boating gals dressed in bikinis) I turned them down for what i percieve to be a better school.
but i've made one exception, because the location game seems to be the game to play...and it happens to works in my favor:
baylor, an incredible school, happens to be in texas, which is a warm and rather interesting state. if you were to move to Texas for climate alone and offhandedly enroll in the "Texas Teechery of Docterrin' Stuf" you would be making a grave mistake. may God have pity on our soul. But you are choosing an excellent school in a nice enviornment (maybe too hot sometimes but eh) as oppopsed to a good school in a crowded, expensive, hostile, polluted city that just happens to be the number one target of certain radical religio/political groups.
as for myself: I'll be in cleveland next year, winters and all. when it comes to the weather, i could justify going to another school in a better clime (such as atlanta) but the way i see it, cleveland winters provide to perfect excuse to forget excuses and study. when I'm frozen in my apartment with nothing but a cracker, a jollyrancher, and a fervent wish for something to do: study.
now take this advice wisely and shrewdly, with a big ole heaping block of (we couldn't find pure salt in such short notice, so i went with the next best thing
shooo is salty
