"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> with lots of housing very close by if perhaps pricey.
About ten years ago, Austin was so overbuilt that landlords were offering the
first and last month's rent free -- a reverse security deposit.
> Since then, the amount of work that goes into every credit hour has
> increased significantly, so you don't want to overburden yourself.
The theory in my day (1980-85) was that every credit hour represented
1 hour of class time (obviously) and 2 hours of non-class time.
What is the figure now?
> Good ol' Ilya, he can quote Eugene Onegin and master astrophysics,
> but can't order his life. He's quite, quite nutty.)
Any educated Russian can quote E.O. at length; like Hamlet, it has a
vast number of phrases that have become completely embedded in the Russian
language.
> and one of the few places that's strong in both
> those areas is UPenn, so that's my first choice.
I did a year of graduate work there (but not in linguistics); talk to me if you
decide to go there.
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