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I would contend that many trains have already left the (Ossie) station. To me the policy question remains, do you want to encourage more to leave, faster? Or the opposite?
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 08:08:54 AM EST
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for my permission slip to enter Uni Jena (seems more paperwork was lost, along with a newly hired professor, my Doktorvater calls the Dean's office the "black hole").

But if I am accepted, I will be moving to the east, and checking on the internet, it seems the cost of living is lower but at the same time Jena seems to be a thriving industrial center for high-tech optics and such as well as the famous university.

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 10:22:30 AM EST
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Hang in the JD.  It's frustrating, I know.  

By all accounts Jena is a kick-butt town.  Zeiss Optics is one of the few DDR companies that wasn't looted during reunification.  They managed to turn themselves around and now, along with the university, make Jena a true economic success story.  

A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run

by ATinNM on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 10:55:41 AM EST
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Jena is on the up and as AT notes, Zeiss-Jena is something special.

Hope the paperwork all works out for you soon!

Jena meetup?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 01:35:22 PM EST
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Oh, I would love a meet up after I get there.  There is also an infrequent Kossack who lives nearby, perhaps by another name here?

I am a humanities guy though, going there for medieval literature and a touch of Tolkien for my dissertation.  Oh the irony, studying Anglo-Saxon in Jena.  A new definition of the Anglo disease

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 01:41:30 PM EST
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studying Anglo-Saxon in Jena.  A new definition of the Anglo disease

LOL!

(Old English, all the same... ;))

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Aug 13th, 2008 at 03:54:26 PM EST
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