I've found a pretty sweet way of making money!

First off, find a street corner. Secondly you gotta beat down the ho's that already claimed the street corner. Then you go down on people that pass you by for money.

what did the mighty Box-2005 think of Atlas Shrugged?

I didnt know that Krem was reading Atlas Shrugged, Krem when your finished can you tell me what you thought of it

I don't miss Manhattan, not that Chicago was all that cheap (almost $2000 a month for a 2 bedroom on Printer's Row).

I don't necessarily buy into the argument that most professions prosper in NY. Certain ones, like Wall Street banker perhaps, or runway model, but there are thousands of other well paying jobs that don't require you to live in the Nazi Death Camp conditions you're describing.

1) No! It literally is a pain to read that book. As much as I liked Fountainhead, this one just bores me out of my mind. I'm reading maybe 3-4 pages a day, so some time by the end of the year I'll be done with it

2) Yeah, that's the emblem of Odessa.

Don't get me wrong, its not a Death Camp. I actually quite enjoy it, its fully furnished. Its a sublet, so people always get away with this stuff because subletters don't want to get furniture or sign contracts or, well, stay long term. The guy himself was paying very little for a huge space, its only Manhatten that things are really expensive (and maybe Brookly Hieghts). Anywho, for the museum and library world NYC is definately up there. There just aren't as many choices out in, say, Indiana, for medieval manuscript positions. :wink:

2000 on Printer's Row? Loyal you were getting robbed.

Anyhow, I still can't believe bABA's brother took advantage of innocent depserate students looking for furnished apartments. Tsk tsk...but then again, I still think this guy was uber-smart. No one wants to waste time doing silly part-time work when they're trying to publish their dissertations, so he's streamlined his little business to a t. My sister has been living in hotel rooms for over two years, and when she helped me bring my stuff over she laughed that even the sheets on the bed were folded under the corners like in hotels!

The South Loop saw a massive surge in property value. For anyone who had the foresight, they would have made a killing in real estate. I loved it there, vaulted ceilings, arty farty neighbors, huge loft space.

I agree about Indiana. :razz:

I'd rather live in a shit hole in NYC then a nice palce in random town USA. The choice is not even a close one for me. granted, now I opt for living in a small city very clseo to larger cities I can visit.

But I havelive din nice towns with not that much to do...I hated it.

I mentioned it because UofI in Bloomington was the only other university in the country that offered a dual masters I'm getting here. I think Chapel Hill just added it this semester. That pretty much leaves me a whopping three choices of where to live, and the point of going isn't just the degrees, its setting myself up with an excellent institution while I'm in school, so that by the time I graduate I have experience and connections. I doubt there are that many institutions I could have set myself up in (out side of the actual universities) in their respective locations. So I consider this move to be for long-term career build, housing comes second. I have the rest of my life to live comfortably. I thought every 24 year old had to kiss a couple roaches and get mugged in order to live the myth of moving up in the world?

Bloomington is only 30 miles from here.

How many rare books and research libraries are near you?

Not any that I can recall, unless there are some in Chicago. I am not really sure because I have not looked for rare books or research libraries.

Harold Washington is the world's largest public library. I don't know what rare books they have, if any, or research areas.

Hiring freeze. They accepted me for a job in AUgust and still hadn't actually been able to fill my position a year later. Its got the worlds biggest blues collection too. I also missed out by one spot (damn runner-up) working in the Newberry Library (which is the biggest private research library in Chicago and my fave one there by far). Was on a terminating post at the Historical Society for 4 months. Tried out UofC, and Art Institute as well. That's just a slim handful compared to what's here as far as art and manuscript archives and libraries. My other choice of university was also UofI Urbana/Champaign, but what doesn't actually have huge institutions next to it, and no art history major.

Actually the best place for me to have gone outside of New York was Toronto, but at the time I couldn't qualify for entrane into UofT because I don't speak french.

Thanks.

Looks like that would be a good place to start. Have you been there?

C’est La Vie

Touche' :wink:


@JB, no, Harold Washington is not a rare book library. It is a public and research library, so almost all of its collection is circulating and mass produced monographs. Their may be special collection within it that were donated and would collect rarer materials, but you're going to have to Head out to the Newberry or Historic Society, etc. Actually, you'll find the local history department of Newberry very interesting, and I believe they have one of the biggest catrography departments in the country.

All the Chicago blueprints or neighborhoods, etc, are in the Historical Society, so you might need them sometime depending.

Harold Washington is a beautiful library though. Much nicer than other ones I have been to. I remember when I wanted to be an architect way back in high school I took a class where the teach enthusiastically showed us the five fiinalists for the design of the downtown sight. It was only finished in the last 10 years, so its a beautiful new building with great layout for reading rooms and fountains that I continuously threw lucky pennies into. You should peak in sometime when you're in Chicago for the architecture alone!

When I was in school, I went there often to study. It's a massive building. I love the design, though it does look as if it dropped out of the sky.