Nora - Yale

[Nora Renka]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, LunaLovesHarry at a... wrote:

> Hi Nora,
> 
> May I ask what you are studying at Yale?  The campus environment 
> sounds incredible.  Whoever suggested U of C had a good idea too.  
> I grew up in the midwest and remember it well.

Hee--I'm actually *cough* something of an expert on both places.  I 
did my undergraduate at the U of C, as a classicist, and I'm 
currently in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale, doing 
music history.  I hope to write a dissertation on the later operas of 
Richard Strauss, or, more interestingly, the Hellenic operas, and 
trace Hellenism as a theme through his period of German culture and 
his and his librettists (especially Hofmannsthal's) specific 
responses to it.  I also do opera as a general theme, and have a deep 
love for Finnish music, too. (So if you want to talk about opera or 
classical music--mail me!)

Any folks here in the NYC area--you'll find me spending far too many 
weekends at Lincoln Center, slumming for the cheap tickets, trying to 
do work while waiting in line...completely the life for me.

The undergraduates here do have it very nicely, as the Colleges 
(mainly the ones that have been renovated, though) do have that stone 
feel to them, and some real amenities.  I myself also live in an old 
building, with thick heavy ornate windows, and fireplaces in the 
rooms.  The tradeoff--boy do the radiators suck...

> "Luna" (who is wishing she could go back and do it all over again)

Graduate?  Who ever wants to do THAT?  (*the* running sad-but-true 
joke about grad students at Chicago.  People get in there and never, 
ever leave.  One reason I didn't stay...)

-Nora gets down to the dirty side of grad school--the work