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My exciting American jaunts!
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Ft. Wayne. Which actually is a nice place! And there's much more than a bunch of Fightin' Engineers*. ;)
*For those of you who don't know, the college in Terra Haute, Rose Hulman, their team name really is the Fightin' Engineers. I kid you not.
Carl-E:
I taught at Rose-Hulman for a year after I got my masters. It was a blast! They're the ones who persuaded me to go on and get my Ph.D.
Terre Haute holds fond memories for me, but it's a pretty dreary (ad stinky) place (there's a creosote plant there, just downwind from the sewage treatment facility...).
dr. nervioso:
I visited Anderson today, really run down. It is like a mix between a classic midwestern town and a city, combining the worst aspects of both.
I haven't been to Ft. Wayne for years. Well except for that one trip last year, but I never got to see anything there really.
And Bloomington is pretty cool. I mean it's just a university town, but it has a lot of stuff there that's more interesting than most other Indiana towns. It also has a Taiwanese resturaunt called the White Tiger (At least I think that's the name). If you do go there though, be sure to be prepared to either share food or bring leftovers.
Where I go to school, Ball State University, is very nice. But its town is very lackluster. As you get farther away from the university, the more the town degrades. But it is a pretty campus.
jwhouk:
Visited with Redball and Barmymoo this afternoon. Kinda weird to meet some of the strange people we have on this board IRL. :psyduck:
Barmymoo:
Who are you calling strange, matey? ;)
Currently Bob and I are on something of an adventure, on our way to a prison which hasn't 100% officially agreed I can visit, but I will just turn up and insist they do. Then another, more official visit on Thursday. My travel grant has been validated at last! Only two weeks left in my American jaunt. I'm looking forward to university starting up again in a month but not to leaving here. It's been almost uniformly excellent.
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