Change of scenery April 30, 2008
Posted by Ben Webster in Off Topic.trackback
After what seemed like roughly the longest two weeks of my life (which included roughly 20 hours of driving, 5 hours on trains, a conference, an apartment search, two seminar talks, taking a friend to an urgent medical care center and one frantic packing of everything I own), I’ve finally managed to leave Princeton permanently (well, at least for the foreseeable future), and take up residence in Cambridge, MA.
As soon as I recover, I have some exciting math posts to write (but only after I get some furniture). Keep your eyes open.
Hey, I made that same transition! — fourteen years ago.
No driving though.
A lot of people made that transition, including at least one other person I know at IAS.
Dror Bar-Natan once told me that moving from Princeton to Boston was the steepest positive slope his happiness function has ever had. I can believe it.
Yay! When you get into campus, come on by and say hi.
Hey, I made that same transition! — twenty-six years ago.
No driving though.
I missed my friends in Princeton, but apart from that Cambridge was an improvement in every respect.
Like I said, it’s a recurring theme.
Having made the Princeton-Cambridge transition in the other direction, I agree with Bar-Natan’s evaluation of the slope and its sign…