On this day when some feel it is necessary to celebrate something people are supposed to do, I am thinking of going to grad school and finish this time. Finally all of my parental units have died and I have money to pay for grad school. That sounds more bitter than I intended it to sound.
I have lived where the teams are either too expensive (U of I for people not associated with the university is/was outrageously expensive) or there has been no team for too long. I want to do laps with others who want to do laps. I don't want to do laps where people don't complain about me swimming in there way as the piddle (my father's favorite word) down the lane doing something that looks like a *** stroke.
Here are the choices. I want to hear opinions -both good and bad.
Indianapolis (have friends)
Cleveland (as a kid a big Indians fan)
Phoenix (Did everyone see that they increased both their football & baseball budget? How does Ms. Love justify that?)
Northridge, CA (quaint)
San Francisco, Ca (looks like it might be more fun than it really is)
Portland, OR (Seattle-want-to-be)
Kansas City, MO ()
Denver, CO (Good friend lives there)
(The statements are from some one else not me)
The furthest west I've ever been is Iowa City, Topeka, San Antonio. I've lived in a small towns (Galesburg, IL the center of the universe and home of the Ferris Wheel), university/intellectual towns (Champaign/Urbana & Topeka, when Menninger was still there) and center cities with lots of suburbs. (DC, St. Louis, Houston). I've never lived in a suburb.
I think of the list only Northridge, CA is a suburb. I think Kansas City, MO is considered central city. To do this I am also thinking of buying a car. I'm 50 & never had one. I've been to Indy, Cleveland (it really has become a beautiful city), and Kansas City, MO (not the center of the universe as LDSers think).
Any response will be most welcomed.
Thanks a bill,
Craig
Former Member
1. thank you for your replies. Far more than I expected.
2. the places indicated are places tht have graduate programs in the field I've worked in for 25 yrs. CSU Northridge has a new and very exciting program in Public Administration/Nonprofit Admin.
2. Surprising as it might seem, UT Austin doesn't have a good Public Admin and no Nonprofit. also, personally, I think Austin thinks too much of itself. in its Public Admin it tends to produce the very stereo type person I've been trying to stay away from, sorry. It alos has some of the highes pollen counts in the world. thank you Lady Bird for making it so beautiful!
3. I was once asked i a high school assembly wha tI wanted to be when I am 50 years old.. THE SMARTALICK THAT I AM I ANSWERED THAT I WANT TO BE MAKING MILLIONS IN PRON. Northridge is a really interesting place. I/ve looked at apartments.rent. many have a 55yr old restriction. I'm not 55 yrs old.
4. At Portland State, any enrolled student can qualify for housing in any dorm. Even as I understand it married students who will bring their family with them. It does have an interesting program with internships included.
5. Phoenix is a huge plus because it has a great center for Nonprofit Study. It offers both a MPA and a MNpS. I am looking to see if it can be a double major. Housing, as with the California colleges, is very expensive. I'm inheriting quite a bit of money but not a fortune.
6. the idea of going west is very weird to me. Delaware is so beautiful.
I could go on for hours. That's what makes this so difficult and why I've gone to discussion boards. I wan the program to be as difficult as possible. The undergraduate college I went to was Knox. Forbes just ranked it as 16 out of 200 as one of the best in the country. There are some swimmers throughout the country from Knox. There is even an All American who now coaches in a northern Chicago suburb. Some work at the IRS. It has great alum. The guy who was the FBI spy, John Podesta, It gave both Abraham Lincoln & Barack Obama their first honorary degrees. The first African American senator attended Knox. As did Mary Allen West. She is one of the two statues is Statuary Hall in the Capital for the State of Illinois.
Again thanks,
Craig
I think Austin thinks too much of itself.
I think SOME of Austin thinks too much of itself. Especially the University of Texas (e.g. "We're Texas").
The rest of Austin on the other hand, is quite relaxed and perfectly happy if no one else ever moves here. In my own view of the world - the City of Austin is too much of an activist government - hence I live outside of the city.
I don't pay much attention to the graduate school so it seems surprising that UT, located in the state capitol, doesn't have a good program for you. Oh well.
Good luck in any case.
Again, ASU's graduate school is mostly downtown Phoenix. It seems very good. Norhtridge, some one has to have a god thing to say about it. the pictures look so beautifu. Portland Does it really rain a lot? I hate rain. I have a friend who grew up around Cleveland. He says CSU is beautiful. Good program Delaware. Its chic meter is rising very fast. SFU is very cheap for out of state students. Big Plus. I think ASU is the second highest and U od Colorado Denver is almost as expensive as Regis University which has a better program.
If the ASU grad school is at the new downtown campus (not the Tempe location) then you'll have access to the soon to be built Brophy swim facility. Brophy (formally Phoenix swim club) masters is coached by Mark Rankin and in my opinion is one of the finest masters clubs in the US...the "old" pool is beautiful, and having scene the plans for the new facility will be outstanding.
Again, ASU's graduate school is mostly downtown Phoenix. It seems very good. Norhtridge, some one has to have a god thing to say about it. the pictures look so beautifu. Portland Does it really rain a lot? I hate rain. I have a friend who grew up around Cleveland. He says CSU is beautiful. Good program Delaware. Its chic meter is rising very fast. SFU is very cheap for out of state students. Big Plus. I think ASU is the second highest and U od Colorado Denver is almost as expensive as Regis University which has a better program.
Statistically I'm willing to bet Portland received the same or less average annual rain than Illinois. The thing is it all comes in th winter. You don't get a lot of sunny days from November to March in the Pacific Northwest. On the other hand you don't get any brutal cold, either, and not much snow. There are usually very few days per year where the high temp is below freezing.
True. I know Atlanta gets more rainfall over the course of a year than Portland does.
Portland Does it really rain a lot? I hate rain.
Statistically I'm willing to bet Portland received the same or less average annual rain than Illinois. The thing is it all comes in th winter. You don't get a lot of sunny days from November to March in the Pacific Northwest. On the other hand you don't get any brutal cold, either, and not much snow. There are usually very few days per year where the high temp is below freezing.
Portland is a great city for public transit with their light rail system. Since Portland State is downtown it should make not having a car very doable. Anyone from Portland would sneer at the thought that Portland is a "Seattle wanna be."
SPEA at IUPUI has a great reputation.
I grew up in Indianapolis and my mom still lives there. Downtown Indianapolis now has fabulous places to live (real estate has not appreciated crazily like most of the country), great restaurants and plenty of sports. IndySwimFit (check out their website) has practices all over the city at all times of day. For more outdoor activities, there are a few nice state parks about an hours drive away.
Besides, Hoosiers are nice people. :wave:
I'm starting a narrowing down movement. Here is what I think is left. San Francisco State, surprisingly cheap for out of state. ASU - Phoenix,, even thought they closed men's swimming and increase both the football and baseball budget. U Delaware. It has a wonderful international section to its nonprofit management course. Not may responses about it. also what abbout Rutgers? this is new to me and I have't really explored it. Portland State. I'm not sure why but one reason might be because they are very responsive when I've aske dquestions of them at the school. One really bad thing is that anyone who wants to live on campus goes into a big lottery. It means that me in a single suite could be living next to 6-8 freshman in their suite. Johns Hopkins though too expensive. My stepmother left me a wad but not that big of a wad. CSU NOrhtridge where I shall also begin my pronographic career. I'll have to come up with a good name. That's another thread.
Indy is very hard for me to think about although IUPUI is the best in nonprofit management in the world. I still remember when Richard Lugar, then mayor, said that what (he used a word I'm not going to use) .....,do is none of his concern. He was talking about African Americans living in the city he governed. The town is very conservative. And I am very not. That also makes me wonder about Phoenix. Also, i hate all of the Indy teams, especially the Colts.
Another place I really like is Delaware. I looked up the cities' standings in different things dealing with health. They are almost all on the bottom of the list. I've always thought Dover, Wilmington & Newark were very neat.
Illinois does receive a lot of rain. However, the U of I weather profs are still sticking to their guns about ending the year in a drought. But it also goes through long times of drought. When I was in college, Illinois was under a state wide drought that really got bad. Then it rqined a lot in 1992 and the entire levy system broke down like it is now. I lived in St. Louis. It rained there every day for the first 57 days I lived there. I hated that and also how little the people who lived there appreciated the city's beauty. One thing about Portland is that the people who've responded here and other threads on other discussion boards are so positive about the city.
All Albertan politician are embarrassing.
Whereas B.C. polititions are merely corrupt. :thhbbb:
(Which is apparently not embarrassing at all to their constituents.)
