Conversation In Cambridge

Wife Helene, daughter Jessie, and I are in Cambridge for a few days. We’re here because daughter Jessie has the enviable task (well, maybe not so enviable) of deciding whether she wants to enter a Ph.D. program in something like applied physics next year at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, or, possibly, Caltech (which hasn’t been heard from yet), To one member of our family, who shall remain nameless, MIT and Harvard (known to that one as the Stanford of the East) appeared considerably less appealing because it’s been snowing since we’ve been here, but hey, everyone to her own taste….

Anyway, last night we had a delightful dinner with Sasha Volokh of Conspiracy fame and his, and Jessie’s, good friend Hanah, queen of Quare. Indeed, our conversation was so successful at solving all extant (and a few historical) problems that I was a bit surprised to log on this morning and see that everyone was still blogging away, as though we had accomplished nothing.

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  1. R. Fliehr March 9, 2004 at 12:10 pm | | Reply

    I work about a mile from Stanford. It was 80 degrees here yesterday and it will not snow here anytime in the foreseeable future (I mean centuries, not months).

  2. John Rosenberg March 9, 2004 at 9:42 pm | | Reply

    I went to Stanford so long I still look for dividend checks. It never snowed. Jessie will be out to look at Stanford in a couple of weeks. She’ll probably miss the snow….

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