Grad School in the Netherlands.

[theonethatfalls]

How do people normally decide to move to another city/country/continent? It seems like there are a few established patterns

Sometimes a person visits another place and absolutely falls in love with it, and decides NO MATTER WHAT he wants to live there, and no where else. Then he looks for how he could move there - jobs, schools, anything that would

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[krasnogolovaya]

congratulations, Marik!

Living in Amsterdam sounds wonderful. If you can, do some research a/b the institute - email some students there - i saw couple of russian names on their website.

i'll miss you... but i'll come visit :)

[_yolochka_]

yaaaaaaaaaay!
i'm all for it. alka and i are very proud of you. alka's also sad. i'm rather excited. alka's more sad than excited ("pacient skoree mertv chem zhiv") BUT we're happy for ya. personally i think that's the way to do it :) /clap clap/
/hug hug/
alka's adding bang bang to it.
and I am DEFINATELY VISITING. alka's coming too

kisses

[m_a_s_h_u_n_y]

Марик,ты уже один раз переехал на другой край света и хорошо обустроился,нашел друзей,товарищей) думаю,что в Амстердаме у тебя не будет проблем с общением и новыми друзьями...хотя понятно,что трудно на это решиться...всё оставить) но ты же не навсегда) если захочешь,то скоро вернешься!=) удачи тебе в Амстердаме)))

[dina_the_lamp]

It makes me sad to hear that you might be so far away ... but know for sure that I will definitely be visiting you if you do choose to go there. It's finals for me (and probably for you), which it utter suckage, but I miss you and will try calling sometime so we can discuss life and boys and the Netherlands properly =)

[mindbody_voice]

I applied last minute to the CMU-Pitt joint PhD in Computational Biology (CPCB) because I got a postcard from Pitt advertising their Molecular Biology program with a fee waver. So I checked it out... not for me... clicked CPCB link and now I'm finishing my first year of PhD at CMU in Pittsburgh... away from friends whom I love and who love me in Boston and New York... while I could have traveled a more familiar route like Brandeis or Einstein.... and it's all good.

What I'm trying to say is that Amsterdam is a lot cooler than Pittsburgh :)

[theonethatfalls]

Heh... glad to now I am not the only one.
Though I think the real difference (and what's freaking me out) is that you actually applied to Einstein and Brandeis, whereas I really chickened out about all the good programs in the US, because of how good you have to be to get in, and only applied last minute.
You actually looked into the choice of "the familiar" before you left to Pittsburg, I didn't.