On March 29 I officially quit running the hiramvillage.org website. I did that for three years, and in anticipation of graduating decided to let go of that job so I can focus on all the more pressing matters at hand. In light of all the complaints I received back when the Village Council told me to shut down the forums on the site, I have opened a new site called www.hiramforums.org which is completely unaffiliated with the village’s site.
Whether or not these new forums continue to exist is based largely on whether or not there’s actual activity on it, since the cost of registering the domain and hosting the site is coming out of my own pocket now.
It’s official, and has been for about a week, but I will be moving to Philadelphia as a UPenn doctoral student in August. I’ve got a brand spankin’ new e-mail address, and I am pretty excited.
I’ve uploaded some pictures from my stay in Philadelphia: click here
I’ll probably get around to titling the pictures or giving little descriptions for each one someday.
Here’s a summary for my past week. Last Saturday I was touring Philadelphia with the other doctoral admits at the University of Pennsylvania. We went to a trendy place for dinner (the Continental) and it was a good time. Then Sunday I was flying back to Cleveland, and hurrying to finish a project for a class. Monday I was still rushing around trying to finish things and get caught back up. Tuesday I presented the project and that night it seemed like the world was ending. Hiram lost power, we got what had to be almost a half inch or more of ice from the freezing rain, and the college closed for break.
Now I’m in Columbus for the break. On Monday I’ll be visiting OSU’s computer science department. Friday I’ll be visiting Purdue, and from the way things are looking I’ll be able to make a final decision about grad school soon. Since I actually have evidence of grad school professors looking at this site, I’ll hold off on passing judgement publicly until I’ve made my decision.
In other news, I looked at the site visitation statistics and there was apparently a visit from a Commodore 64. Fascinating!
