Landing an interview at ECU, even though it's months away, has got me thinking about what it would really be like to go to school there. Like everything else, there are some major ups and downs:
Pros: The living situation would definitely be nice; I'd probably be living at Treybrooke, a very nice apartment complex which is right across the street from the PA school. Their one-bedroom apartment includes a study, and is over 100 square feet bigger than what we have now (for less money). It would be really nice to have the two mainstays of my daily life right there in a few hundred square yards -- I wouldn't even have to move my car most days. There are some cool amenities to living there, too: hot tub, nice fitness center, nice pool, bay windows in the apartments, Starbucks right across the street...
Cons: One drawback is that the medical school is not on the main ECU campus, meaning that the college facilities (fitness center, pool, student store, etc.) as well as most of the 'reputable' stores (Harris Teeter, Target, etc.), would be a few miles to the east. The other (big, big, big) downside to going to ECU is that L probably would not be able to come with me. She's aiming to land a relatively well-paying job for the two years I'm in school so she can get a new car and stockpile some money for when she starts her Ph.D in 2012; she's flexible as to the field, but needs to find something fairly lucrative. Having said that, she's already anticipating a certain (awesome) offer in Raleigh to come her way in another few months, which would be hard to turn down. If I don't get into Duke (read: if I do end up temporarily leaving the Triangle), she would probably choose to come with me if the destination were a big-city area like Portland or Charleston... but Gainesville or Greenville would be more iffy as to job prospects. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I were in Greenville and she in Raleigh; it's only a 90-minute drive, and I could probably arrange a lot of my rotations in the Triangle during my second year... but it would still suck, big-time.
Okay... can I start get some other interview invites now, please? I can't stop thinking about this one and it's wearing me out.
Pros: The living situation would definitely be nice; I'd probably be living at Treybrooke, a very nice apartment complex which is right across the street from the PA school. Their one-bedroom apartment includes a study, and is over 100 square feet bigger than what we have now (for less money). It would be really nice to have the two mainstays of my daily life right there in a few hundred square yards -- I wouldn't even have to move my car most days. There are some cool amenities to living there, too: hot tub, nice fitness center, nice pool, bay windows in the apartments, Starbucks right across the street...
Cons: One drawback is that the medical school is not on the main ECU campus, meaning that the college facilities (fitness center, pool, student store, etc.) as well as most of the 'reputable' stores (Harris Teeter, Target, etc.), would be a few miles to the east. The other (big, big, big) downside to going to ECU is that L probably would not be able to come with me. She's aiming to land a relatively well-paying job for the two years I'm in school so she can get a new car and stockpile some money for when she starts her Ph.D in 2012; she's flexible as to the field, but needs to find something fairly lucrative. Having said that, she's already anticipating a certain (awesome) offer in Raleigh to come her way in another few months, which would be hard to turn down. If I don't get into Duke (read: if I do end up temporarily leaving the Triangle), she would probably choose to come with me if the destination were a big-city area like Portland or Charleston... but Gainesville or Greenville would be more iffy as to job prospects. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I were in Greenville and she in Raleigh; it's only a 90-minute drive, and I could probably arrange a lot of my rotations in the Triangle during my second year... but it would still suck, big-time.
Okay... can I start get some other interview invites now, please? I can't stop thinking about this one and it's wearing me out.
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