Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sunshine State!

As correctly noticed by Mattias, California is also known as ‘The Sunshine State’. In San Francisco however, sunshine is not always guaranteed:

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Although the Golden Gate is veiled in fog here, the nicknames for the states are in general quite telling. Let’s take a look at where my PhD took me so far so you can judge yourself. First we had ‘The Aloha State’:

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and I can assure that life is pretty ‘aloha’ over there. Then we had ‘The Empire State’ which certainly didn’t steal its name either:

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Next, Valéry, Eduardo and I visited ‘The District’:

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Washington, D.C. indeed breaths ‘governmentalism’ from all its pores. In March finally, Jimmy and I conquered ‘The Silver State’, more specifically ‘Sin City’:

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And yes, that 40-dollar chip we had just won later completely disappeared back into the system, as it is supposed to do…

By the way, we still have some open PhD positions at IMEC, anyone interested…?

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