I will be attending UC Riverside this Fall

Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
edited September 2007 in General
I'M COPYING LANG BECAUSE I WANNA BE POPULAR LIKE HIM

I'll be joining a large number of fellow Orange Beltians by becoming a resident of the State of California this fall. I signed the official paperwork today, and am now a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies. I'm well on the way to making the "Professor" a reality!
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  • HamelinHamelin
    edited March 2007
    I'm trapped in the boring, decaying, socially stagnant, economically doomed state of Michigan.

    Screw you guys.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    KICKASS! I'm so excited! We're going to go out to dinner to celebrate, and definitely not just because we're hungry and don't feel like cooking!
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    Hey, I'm sitting in the middle of Minnesota and not likely to be going anywhere. My current college has proven to be disappointing. I could rant about it, but I'll just say I can only hope your schooling does you far more good than mine will.
  • NukivajNukivaj
    edited March 2007
    Damn, everyone is moving to California.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited March 2007
    I prefer New York and am not at all disappointed to live here! I live in the oldest of the fifteenish Orange Counties in the USA!

    I'm an OC OG who posts on the OB.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited March 2007
    Everyones finally figuring out the greatness that is California.

    Except for LA.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    There's nothing wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't fix.
  • geokogeoko
    edited March 2007
    hmm... that would also wipe San Francisco off the map. This concept displeases me. Though it would be nice to be rid of LA, I must agree.

    And as for your UCR-ness, stock up on booze, cause from what I hear there ain't crap to do in Riverside.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited March 2007
    There's bound to be a lot more stuff to do there than there is here in BFE
  • geokogeoko
    edited March 2007
    You'd be surprised. I mean, it's a suburb of a suburb of a suburb of LA.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited March 2007
    As long as cow tipping isn't the highlight of an average weekend, I'm all for it.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited March 2007
    Cow tipping is a terrible idea anyway! Cows are heavy. And don't actually sleep on their feet anyway.
  • mariomario
    edited March 2007
    This is most awesome! When will you be moving to California? We'll have to plan a cross-state In N Out run.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited March 2007
    Sometime this fall! I don't have any details yet, but I'll be sure to keep everyone posted regardless of their interest, or lack thereof!
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Heya, Jake! One more reason UCRiverside is a cool choice: I read this rant about completing a humanities dissertation at an Ivy, and it sounds like a total crap situation.

    http://aastrikke.blogspot.com/2007/03/total-meltdown.html
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited March 2007
    Phew! Good thing Harvard wanted nothing to do with me!
  • jcjc
    edited March 2007
    Yeah, judging from my own experience and from what I hear from the people still there, I'm going to say you're lucky to avoid humanities Ph.D. programs at private schools.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited March 2007
    What's the college like? I'll apply when I get older possibly!
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited March 2007
    DO NOT DO THAT. COLLEGE IS EVIL.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited March 2007
    College isn't exactly evil. It's like fire. If you goof off and play around and don't take it seriously, it'll burn away the best years of your life and take a massive bite out of your finances, setting you back in a bad way. BUT, if you are careful and pick the right program at the right college and devote yourself to becoming highly employable and make a lot of positive connections (it pays to know people), that fire can forge you into a lean, mean, money makin' machine. Or whatever else it is you wish to accomplish work-wise in your life.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Just be careful. Higher education is addictive.
  • mariomario
    edited March 2007
    I've learned today that you can achieve great things in life if you set fire to yourself. Responsibly.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited March 2007
    Expand on that, Stef, I'm curious about that statement.
  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited March 2007
    She has seventeen PhD's.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited March 2007
    By the way, I was just kidding, I really like college. It's a lot of fun to be able to live with your friends and think deep thoughts.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited March 2007
    College is great, except for the homework.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited March 2007
    If enough people move to California you are going to have to detach it from America and come for a visit.

    I suggest the judicious (read: Excessive) use of high explosives.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited April 2007
    UPDATE!

    I have a place to live! Hooray for on campus graduate apartments.

    I'll be moving out west sometime in the middle of September! California, here I come!
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited April 2007
    Right back where you started from?
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited July 2007
    I'm even more official now!

    http://www.religiousstudies.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/eyers/index.html

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