Road Trip: Old Cities of the East
Road Trip: Old Cities of the East
Monday 15 April 2024
Cold Eye Earth is taking some time off this week. This typically occurs about once each year in the publication cycle.
This year’s trip takes me on a grand loop from Pennsylvania to New York State to Ohio and back to New York (City), again through Pennsylvania. My high school senior, age 17, is now about to make his final university decision. For example, we had a great time at accepted students day at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute just this weekend. We were able to get a good sense of the extraordinary research opportunities that occupy undergraduate education, and were treated to a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in the evening at RPI’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.
The start of this week finds us at the University of Rochester, and its Hajim School of Engineering, where we’ve already had a chance to marvel at Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. You will notice a theme here: many STEM students also have an affinity for music, and my 17 year old is very much involved in that combination with the piano, and the saxaphone. Our trip concludes later this week after visits to Case Western and Carnegie Mellon.
To address the needs of readers, the letter usually publishes at least one if not two extra issues each year to compensate for the missed issue. Accordingly, a double publication will occur before the end of this year.
The letter will return on its next publication due date, Monday 29 April.
All best regards, Gregor.