I’m moving there in late August/early September. I need to know who I can get together and have beers with and just be a dick complaining about the state of pianism today 
Why the hell would you move from Berkeley!?!?
but otherwise, there is no good reason. berkeley is a fucking great town. minus the goddamn homeless bitches.
I was in halfie heaven out there–plus you have Chez Panisse.
Cornell’s got a nice campus, though.
a good friend of mine is going into their law program
Calling from grad school in the midwest, if you want to do something besides your work, go to California.
Granted, maybe that’s why it’s a good research school- there’s nothing else to do.