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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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