Solidarity pact for the West? | 44 comments (44 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I am still waiting (4.00 / 2)

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.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

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.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

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... ;))

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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