No pictures today, and I apologize.I haven’t updated much recently mostly because I stopped taking pictures, and I know that no one wants to just read text. A picture tells a thousand words, and all that.
However, with an upcoming spring trip to North Africa, and another possible one to Dubai, that will change soon.
In the mean time, life here has been pleasant and busy. We met a group of other similarly-aged recent graduates from Georgetown, (one of the guys was the basketball coach, so I met him on the court during a match), and had a nice dinner. Another dinner party is planned with Atsuko hosting. It’s great for us, because of the rather stunted social scene here, and meeting new people our age was nigh impossible. The colleges here do not do a good job of reaching out to each other, Cornell especially. Apparently, Cornell here has a kind of a negative reputation among the other schools as having pretentious faculty/administrators and nerdy geeks as students. The Cornell name plus the medical track apparently puts a bit of a puff in our chests when we fraternize with other schools, or so I’ve heard. This is NOT a good thing, seeing that inter-collegiate cooperation is vital to maintaining the vitality of this whole project. We don’t get invited to events, and the Cornell administrators hold things pretty close to the chest and leave us minor-level faculty constantly confused and disorientated with what’s going on.
