Four weeks, seven cities, 13,000 miles ... Do I win the Amazing Job Race? I don't know. I included comments about each place with the pictures. I'm not going to describe how I felt about each department, position, salary, or my chances - the comments are just about the place. I think that's best for a public page. I accepted an offer to remain at Bellarmine University in the department of mathematics. You can see Bellarmine photos on this page.
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Laguardia airport, the gateway to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield Connecticut. |
The Math department office. My camera batteries died, so Sacred Heart pictures are lower quality shots from my cameraphone. |
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Almost all the classrooms are in one large connected building. |
Yes, they're Catholic, though I don't think that's a priest. |
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One of the dormitories. The campus surprised me with its space. I thought Connecticut was too pricey to have much land. |
On my way to the airport I shot a farewell. |
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For my next visit, I was booked on United through O'Hare. The monitor message is redundant. Of course it's delayed. |
I stayed in a bed and breakfast with a rather unusual canopy. |
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I was in Tacoma, Washington, visiting the University of Puget Sound. The science building is under construction so the faculty have offices in trailers. |
They also built a glass-walled gazebo for a coffee shop. |
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The campus is a very nice Tudor Gothic. |
Here, it's 9:30 AM, and the sun is shining, unusual for February. |
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Now it's 10:30 AM and more typical weather on the Puget Sound. |
The Tacoma Narrows bridge. The current version does not have resonance problems. |
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I booked the flight for my last visit, heading through Las Vegas. Even the airport has slot machines. |
I won 2 dollars playing video poker. |
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I found this sign at Cal Poly Pomona amusing. |
Southern California has nice views. Plus, I could wear shorts on Saturday in February, tough to pass up. |
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Yet another math department hallway. |
Building number 8 houses Math. All buildings are numbered at a polytechnic school. |
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The campus was built on land that was once the ranch of the Kellogg family. |
Yes, the cereal people. This is the original stables. The campus has new stables now, plus a farm. |
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I had to look hard to find something ugly, but here it is. |
To make up for that, here's the view from the hotel, down from the ranch-house overlooking the campus. |