So, I'm on the plane to LA, headed to the UC Santa Barbara interview. This is interesting, because since I've already been accepted to both this school and to UCSF (which I am almost certain I prefer), there is absolutely no stress associated with this, so I can just breeze through, and enjoy Santa Barbara...which is an insanely beautiful area!
I am keeping an open mind, though. People have been telling me all along that I shouldn't take the US News rankings too seriously (and if you look at their ranking methodology, it's easy to see why!), so even though UCSF is much better ranked than UCSB (or ASU), I'm still going to their interviews, just in case they absolutely blow me away and I decide that I actually want to go there, instead! After all, as far as location goes, I'd be perfectly happy with any of my three options - San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Phoenix are all fine by me.
So, I still haven't heard back from Harvard or UC San Diego yet, and I'm not exactly holding my breath. To be honest, I'm fairly certain I'd prefer UCSF over either one of these places, and god knows I sure don't want to move to Massachusetts! San Diego's neat, because it's right on the beach, but San Francisco is better ranked, and it seems like there's more cool research going on at UCSF, anyway. Actually, that's kind of how I feel about these other schools: they're alright, and there is some cool stuff going on at each place, but UCSF has just so much cool research going on there. At this point, I am about 95% certain that I will end up accepting UCSF's offer.
Also, using this extraordinarily large laptop on an airplane really is no good. Wonder if Colin's managed to sell his tiny Vaio yet...
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