University of Maryland
Nov. 20th, 2006 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynOn Saturday after seeing Donna off for her trip to North Carolina, I drove up to the Metro and took the train to College Park MD, and walked around the University of Maryland for a few hours. There's a kind of irony in it that I enjoy, in that UMD was my other serious option for which school to go to for the Ph.D. I chose Ohio State because the graduate students there seemed less miserable than the ones at UMD, and the funding OSU offered was a lot more stable than what Maryland was (presumably some of the UMD student's misery was tied to the funding situation, I'm guessing). In any case, the closest major state university to where we settled down just happens to be where I would have ended up after Bowling Green, had things gone differently.
It took about 10 minutes to walk from the Metro to the edge of campus. The street on the border had the usual assortment of run-down bars and hole-in-the-wall dineries. I stopped in a comic shop and a bookstore, but didn't see anything really tempting. The campus itself is really similar to Ohio State, down to the large grassy mall dominated by the main library at its terminus. I was pretty happy with the library; I was able to rummage through some history books I was thinking about buying on Amazon, but found them for the most part fairly dry and not worth the trouble. So, that saved some money. The bookstore at the student union had a surprisingly extensive stationary selection and magazine stock, and the restaurants at the union included a Chick-Fil-A - yum!
The joint program which the Census Bureau offers with UMD offers a citation in survey methodology which looks interesting and doable, assuming I can get work time to attend classes. So, I may be shuttling back and forth to College Park sometime in the future.
It took about 10 minutes to walk from the Metro to the edge of campus. The street on the border had the usual assortment of run-down bars and hole-in-the-wall dineries. I stopped in a comic shop and a bookstore, but didn't see anything really tempting. The campus itself is really similar to Ohio State, down to the large grassy mall dominated by the main library at its terminus. I was pretty happy with the library; I was able to rummage through some history books I was thinking about buying on Amazon, but found them for the most part fairly dry and not worth the trouble. So, that saved some money. The bookstore at the student union had a surprisingly extensive stationary selection and magazine stock, and the restaurants at the union included a Chick-Fil-A - yum!
The joint program which the Census Bureau offers with UMD offers a citation in survey methodology which looks interesting and doable, assuming I can get work time to attend classes. So, I may be shuttling back and forth to College Park sometime in the future.
