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Right now I feel like George, after round one, in desperate need of an Ona.
In short -- I'm not coming back to Brown, for incredibly stupid reasons mainly instigated by a Dean who lied to me about my situation, and has been deeply caustic and unhelpful throughout the course of a year. This frustrates me enormously but there's nothing I can do about it and I have decided to move on with my life.
So, in short, I'm looking for a University or College where I can do my studying thing next year. I have a few in mind, but I thought I would take recommendations from anyone who happens to be reading this.
Necessary:
Has a decent physics program, with a sophmore or junior level lab course that covers modern physics (the fundamental experiements of Quantum Mechanics, ideally) and also (ideally) has a lecture component. This is an absolute must.
Has decent Chinese, including classical and other post-third-year classes.
A reasonably liberal "open-university" policy (allows interested, non-enrolled students to take classes for non-matriculating credit.)
Not Brown University, for whatever reason.
Bonuses:
Good "geek" scene, especially role-playing games, but also science fiction, fantasy, and animation.
Japanese or Korean classes.
A renowned East Asian Studies department, or at least one with friendly, intelligent professors.
A Chinese-speaking community, at least enough that I can find people to practice conversation with.
Friends.
On West or East coast of US.
Anyone know of any possible candidates?
In short -- I'm not coming back to Brown, for incredibly stupid reasons mainly instigated by a Dean who lied to me about my situation, and has been deeply caustic and unhelpful throughout the course of a year. This frustrates me enormously but there's nothing I can do about it and I have decided to move on with my life.
So, in short, I'm looking for a University or College where I can do my studying thing next year. I have a few in mind, but I thought I would take recommendations from anyone who happens to be reading this.
Necessary:
Has a decent physics program, with a sophmore or junior level lab course that covers modern physics (the fundamental experiements of Quantum Mechanics, ideally) and also (ideally) has a lecture component. This is an absolute must.
Has decent Chinese, including classical and other post-third-year classes.
A reasonably liberal "open-university" policy (allows interested, non-enrolled students to take classes for non-matriculating credit.)
Not Brown University, for whatever reason.
Bonuses:
Good "geek" scene, especially role-playing games, but also science fiction, fantasy, and animation.
Japanese or Korean classes.
A renowned East Asian Studies department, or at least one with friendly, intelligent professors.
A Chinese-speaking community, at least enough that I can find people to practice conversation with.
Friends.
On West or East coast of US.
Anyone know of any possible candidates?
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That amuses me. Earlham was my sister's backup/safety school.
Ben, I think a decent number of state universtities, like UMass or whatever, might have what you're looking for.
MW