/sci/ - Science & Math

Weren't you a professor at some uni in europe?

>Professor
Excuse me what?! (That's to say "no, I'm not a professor")

Ok ok sorry, I just thought you mentioned that you were a long time ago when you showed us pictures of your mercury crystal (or something related).

>>2608760
>implying professors have time to post on /sci/

Nope, the best you'll get is some lazy Ph.D browsing while working.

>>2608774 mercury crystal
<span class="math">\mathrm{CuIn}_5\mathrm{Se}_8[/spoiler]. If I was a professor I would coordinate what people do with that crystal and not look at it myself.

aren't you already in grad school in germany? you got an invite to be an assistant proffessor?

I live pretty close to Rutgers. I'm actually one county over in Monmouth. Great state school - a bunch of people from my high school ended up going there. Congrats.

I don't know what it is, but every person that I know who went to Rutgers is a complete asshole.

I might end up going there one day though.

>>2608806 Monmouth
I've heard nice stories about the beach, a few friends of mine wrote their thesis in the sand there :-)

>>2608748
I'm down the road at Princeton, grad student. Never been to the Rutgers campus though.

>>2608868
I think I may attend Princeton lectures, but I guess that's too far away to do on a regular basis.
So ... how's the weather? haha

rutgers is my dream school, hoping to study math there one day

congrats

sex

>>2608882
>I think I may attend Princeton lectures, but I guess that's too far away to do on a regular basis.
It's maybe a 30 minute drive in traffic, but you can take a train for maybe 10 bucks, campus to campus. I think the train stops very close to the Rutgers campus. Unreal amounts of fantastic lectures here, so definitely make a point of it.

>So ... how's the weather? haha
Fuckin sucks. You're Euro, eh? I'm guessing that means you don't know much about New Jersey, so allow me to summarize (like most people at princeton, I'm not from NJ). There are 50 states in the US. If you were to poll them, 49 states would universally agree that New Jersey is the shittiest state.

Anyways, I'm a PhD student in aerospace. What are you coming for?

>>2608895 rutgers is my dream school
Why, if I may ask? Anything specifically awesome there that I don't know about? (I mean I already know it's a great school, but there are others as well)

>>2608921
>You're Euro, eh?
German, yes.
>New Jersey is shit
... is there any rational reason for that or is it just random hate? Anyway, I can take the train to NY every weekend and ... well, newyork around.
And ten bucks ... I mean I have to come back after the lecture because I sure can't plan on having a "Princeton day", there are lectures at Rutgers too. So that's 20 bucks a day, say two lectures a week, that's a lot of money over a few months. But maybe I'll change my mind once I'm there.
>What are you coming for?
Officially physics, but I'll probably take some math lectures as well (specifically those that aren't available here plus are interesting). The plan is staying for a year, but that's just a lower boundary.

>>2608921
Monmouth and the surrounding areas are very nice. Stray too far though, and it's a complete shit-hole.

>>2608964 shithole
Shithole? You mean poor suburbs, soccer moms and ... well, everything there is in USA prejudices?

>>2608775
Did you call?....lmao

>>2608982
No, I mean dirty, polluted areas with high crime rates.

>>2608993
YOU
rhizome.josef@googlemail.com
use the force!
(Oh, and there were some Rutgers mail errors as well. I guess my mail addresses have some evil aura or something.)

>>2608999
Hence
>everything there is in USA prejudices

>>2608962
>... is there any rational reason for that or is it just random hate?
Before I moved here I would've thought it was blown out of proportion, but it's pretty rational. It's actually worse than expected (caveat: Princeton is considered to be "not in New Jersey" by the natives, because the town is considerably different from the rest of the state.) Like in the New Brunswick area, you have high crime, high traffic, it's downright dirty, a dearth of culture, and New Jerseyans as a people are the most unique combination of arrogant and retarded that you'll find in the US.

But there are some very nice areas like PU, and the rural areas can be very very nice.

>So that's 20 bucks a day, say two lectures a week, that's a lot of money over a few months. But maybe I'll change my mind once I'm there.
Well, you can get cheaper rates when you buy in bulk. But two lectures a week would be a bit of overload, heh. Just watch the events list and come down for ones that really pique your interest.

>>2608999
Hm. I'll try to make the best of it. Any ruins, especially industrial ones? I love their atmosphere and taking pictures there. It's a shame I live so far away from the Ruhrgebiet here.

>>2608748
congratulations man

>>2608999
>>2608964

Yeah, basically this. There's isolated pockets of acceptable areas surrounded by a clusterfuck of terrible. On route 1 we've got Trenton on one side and New Brunswick on the other... not exactly ideal.

>>2609004 Like in the New Brunswick area
Now guess where I'm going. That's right, the New Brunswick area. Gaaah ;)
But from what I've heard a USA campus is like its own city with security on superparanoid levels. It's something at least.

>>2609008
>Any ruins, especially industrial ones? I love their atmosphere and taking pictures there. It's a shame I live so far away from the Ruhrgebiet here.

Oh man, someone needs to follow this guy with a video camera =)

I have a feeling that deserted industrial buildings in Jersey are a bit less... civilized than what you're used to. Unless you're used to squatters that will stab you for the change in your pocket.

>>2608748
how is your performance in uni?

>>2609029
>someone needs to follow this guy with a video camera

So there will be two victims? I'll leave that to you, bro.

>>2609002
Ok, lets see if it works this time

>>2609022
>But from what I've heard a USA campus is like its own city with security on superparanoid levels. It's something at least.

heh, you can't make any generalization about american universities like that. completely dependent on location. many have absolutely zero security because they don't need it... others are bit like you describe (Yale and USC come to mind) because they're surrounded by very very shitty urban areas. Princeton has basically no security/walls/whatever. Anyone can walk from the town area through campus whenever they want.

>>2609032
heh, obviously the "someone" is not going to be me.
OP, what's your position that you're taking for a year? you finish phd already, no?

i look its the eurosnob who hates everything about america but wants nothing more than to go there

>>2609064
>i look its the eurosnob who hates everything about america but wants nothing more than to go there

terrible engrish notwithstanding.. yeah, ugh. JFC i hate being surrounded by foreigners (euros and chinese specifically) at my universities that rant about how much they hate america, while they leech off our vastly superior universities.

it's not even just students. i have to listen hyper-liberal neckbeard professors profess their hate for republicans and america and religion and whatever else... like, go fuck yourself. don't migrate here and then bitch about how much better your old shitty country is. you can go back.

>>2609029
Well, shit then. That's the worst case actually, nice ruins you can't enter.
And your guess was right, I've never been to a shitty neighbourhood when I was ... crime-able. I've grown up in a real shithole until I was 7, but nobody ever tried to stab me.

>>2609088
I'd really love to start trolling you now since you've sent me such a nice invitation, but I don't want to crap my own thread up. Thanks for the offer though.

Bahahahaha. Rutgers.
>Slutgers
>implying you won't get an STD just from riding the bus
>implying you won't get shot driving in the terrible neighborhoods surrounding the school

>>2609105
It bugs me too. The attitude of "America sucks and is filled with hillbilly warmongering morons" mixed with "I'm moving thousands of miles to set foot on an American university" is damn annoying.

1) I hope you're not the America-bashing type
2) Realize that New Brunswick, New Jersey is not very representative of the America that many love.

I live in New York and used to live in New Brunswick and I can tell you that it's a perfectly fine place to live, safe and clean and even pretty, but a bit dull outside the university.

Also, if you have time or energy and the curiosity, the philosophy department is superb--world-class, better than Harvard. (This is not to deny that there are duds in it!) Here's a philosopher of physics:
http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=210

>>2609111
If I hated the USA I wouldn't go there. (Could tell dumb prejudice stories about Germany too. Don't take them too seriously.)

>Philosophy
I've heard of the department already, and I'm also interested in philosophy. I guess the problem won't be finding awesome lectures there but picking only some of them because, well, a week only has seven days.

>>2609132
>If I hated the USA I wouldn't go there.
Good!
>(Could tell dumb prejudice stories about Germany too. Don't take them too seriously.)
Heh true. Apologies in advance for the inevitable people making Nazi remarks.

>>2609143 Nazi remarks
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Good thing I'm a sarcastic person so I can probably make the most of being insulted for being German. Or I could try speaking with a French accent. Endless possibilities.

What I'm really curious about is the food. I mean although the USA really have a reputation for awful food culture, I've been told by many people that everything's full of healthy stuff, but most people go to McDonald's anyway.
But anyway, here's my list of things of things I don't like about the USA:
- Imperial units. Unless I can make fun of them they're going to annoy the crap out of me.
- No bread. Really, no country has as awesome bread as Germany. I think I'll have to get a stove to make my own. (Or travel to German Town, isn't that somewhere "near" Rutgers?)

And I've never met a die hard creationist. Could be fun. Once, at least. (Must be creepy sometimes to be a scientist in Texas)

so Josef, why do you hate jewish people? did your mother not give you the love you needed?

>>2609170
The food culture is excellent. You have unlimited variety at your disposal. And with NYC less than an hour away, you have access to arguably the finest city for dining in the world.

Bread: I assure you, you won't be more than a few blocks from an excellent bakery.

Imperial units: What's your level of education? 1) You should be able to handle any units. 2) Non-dimensionalize stuff anyway.

>>2609212
I don't particularly dislike jews, I hate all people the same.

>>2609170
American bread is terrible, no denying, and the food overall is pretty bad. Cheese is a serious problem, and sausage, and fruit. American food often tastes like it was made as a display item in museum--"this is what food looks like"--without intending that anyone would actually eat it. BUT you can always get what you want, especially in a college town, and Rutgers is big. You can find a good bakery and a gourmet shop. Get a bicycle--things are spread out.

I went to grad school for a long time, with a lot of Europeans, and I'm sorry to say it but you may find that it's hard to make friends with Americans generally, and that you're more comfortable with other Europeans. American culture is provincial because Americans don't travel much and aren't much interested in other cultures. Of course, there are always exceptions, especially at a college town, but in my uni (which was in a major US city), the foreign students usually ended up hanging out with other foreign students. Which is not so bad, because there are a lot of them, and they're smart, but still it kind of makes me sad.

One more piece of advice, if you don't mind hearing it: as a foreign student, you are going to have to endure a LOT of bureaucracy. What's worse, most American unis (and I don't know about Rutgers, but I don't expect it to be different) don't put a lot of resources into the international-students offices, and these offices are very badly run. Every year, a huge number of students (not proportionally, but in absolute numbers) end up not being able to return to the US because of simple administrative problems that the bureaucrats were too stupid to fix.

>>2609227
Two solutions: make sure that you are well-connected with the international-students community, because they will know what needs to be done better than the office staff; and make sure that whenever you go to the international students office, you are VERY polite, and above all, NEVER appear to be superior or condescending. Americans often feel superior to other people, and don't think that nobody will think "Oh, Germany, we beat them in WWII (blah blah blah), so he has to be deferential to me." It's amazing, but it's just a sad fact. (You're lucky you're not Chinese, let me tell you.) So: be nice in that office, AND, if you can, try to "make friends" with someone who knows what they're doing. Learn the person's name, and send thank-you notes when they help you. A personal connection can help a LOT.

Good luck. Thanks for coming to the USA. In terms of science, we need all the help we can get.

>>2609180
Bad stereotype. Do you honestly think that the country with basically 90% of the best universities in the world is full of science-hating creationists?

Rutgersfag here. This is a decent school that could have been greater if it wasn't sadly hampered by the fact that it's in New Jersey, not to mention a few historical mistakes the school made over time.

>>2609234
"40 Percent Of Americans Still Believe In Creationism"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/40-of-americans-still-bel_n_799078.html

>>2609227
>>2609229
Ah, the foul stench of European airs of superiority. And you wonder why you have such a difficult time here.

>>2609220
I can work live with SI and natural units. I dislike CGI, and I hate imperials. The problem isn't that I couldn't convert units with a calculator, but that I don't want to. I mean I could live with having inches and kiloinches, but when somebody tells me he lives 1000 yards away I'd have to do some serious calculation in my head. Let's see how long it takes me to get a feeling for that.

>you won't be more than a few blocks from an excellent bakery.
What? Awesome.

>The food culture is excellent.
Even more awesome. At least on the dining end.
How's the, umm, let's call it "casual food"? From what I know there's not something like a in-university restaurant where almost everyone eats, and instead you eat somewhere outside the campus. That's what some guy from Austin told me at least (which is obviously representative for the whole USA, umm).

>>2609234
50-60% of the students are international though.

They are awesome because they have awesome image and prestige.

Also, confusing the American south and midwest for other regions is retarded. No-one think you guys are like that, just large regions.

>>2609244
I'm American, fucknuts.

>>2609227

>One more piece of advice, if you don't mind hearing it: as a foreign student, you are going to have to endure a LOT of bureaucracy

This was a MAJOR problem at Rutgers, but after some recent consolidation, things seem to be better. Look up the "RU screw" and you'll see what I mean.

>>2609254
Joe, a yard is practically a meter.

Try not to be such a fuckup.

>>2609262
Oh so you're a pretentious American. Everybody fucking hates you.

>>2609262
>My face when you are a self-hating American.

No such thing as America, each state is like a little country. Many people on the west coast will have no idea what Rutgers is, since they do not play big time sports. Just like a degree from UC Irvine will be of little use on the east coast.

>>2609229
>Good luck. Thanks for coming to the USA. In terms of science, we need all the help we can get.
Yes, that's why every math/physics/biology/engineering/science graduate department at every university in the country is jam-packed with foreign students/applicants desperate to study here. So they can help us poor stupid Americans.

>>2609244
>Ah, the foul stench of European airs of superiority. And you wonder why you have such a difficult time here.
Seriously. What a despicable attitude. Two of my best friends here are Euro (one French, one German), and if either of them ever projected that kind of air of superiority, they certainly would not be my friends.

>>2609285
>No such thing as America, each state is like a little country.
I would argue that. The rise of huge conglomerates has basically destroyed Main Street, USA. Everywhere you go, you are going to see the same national chains. You will find people consuming the same media. It's really depressing.

>>2609234 Bad stereotype.
I didn't mean to say you're all creatioinists, but that there are some. You have to look for them using a magnifying glass here, and in the USA there's a fair chance of encountering one at some point. (I do realize that a nation of creationists wouldn't have landed on the moon.)

>>2609227 making friends
From what I've heard it's going to seem like I'm making friends really quickly, but none of those friendships will be very ... strong. Many people that came back told me that they were invited to peoples homes quickly, but it felt superficial. (Huge generalization again, of course)
What I'd love is finding someone from NY itself in order to not being a stupid tourist for a whole year.

And thanks for the buerocracy warning. I've had my fair share of this back here already (my bank laughed at me when I told them I need a statement to study in the USA, nobody took that thing seriously, there isn't even a form for something like that here). So confirming that I could meet the existential minimum of $45000 (what the fuck man) was a really weird thing to do.

>>2609254
>How's the, umm, let's call it "casual food"? From what I know there's not something like a in-university restaurant where almost everyone eats, and instead you eat somewhere outside the campus. That's what some guy from Austin told me at least (which is obviously representative for the whole USA, umm).

Not sure how it is at Rutgers, but I assume like most schools it has a central eating hub run by the university that's very popular. It's a big school, and one thing that's cool about university areas is the options for "casual food." You'll find something cheap, fast, and to your liking.

>>2609285

New Jersey is actually very provincial in a lot of aspects. For instance, if you get an interview for a firm in New Jersey, and you have a degree from Michigan and not Rutgers, that'll actually be a negative for you. They'll think you're damaged goods or something for trying to get a job in New Jersey rather than in NYC.

Yeah...that's how self-loathing New Jersey is. I hate this state so much.

>>2609287
You should really learn punctuation.

>>2609308
>So confirming that I could meet the existential minimum of $45000 (what the fuck man) was a really weird thing to do.
That's a visa requirement from the Feds. If you can't support yourself while you are here, we don't want you (unless you are Mexican working for slave wages).

>>2609312

Look up Grease Trucks and fat sandwiches at Rutgers. GREASY NECTAR OF THE GODS.

>>2609274
Seconded. Also explains the "only friends with foreigners" angle. Probably fits nicely with stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.

>>2609316
I'll set up an appointment with my English English tutor after I'm done with my Chinese math tutor.

>>2609274
>>2609276
Pfft. Enjoy your supermarket bread, Detroit cars, obese neighbors, religious fanatics running the government. I'll stay in my small, worldly, cosmopolitan niche, thank you very much. It took me long enough to find it and I love it.

I just read up on the RU screw. Sounds adventurous.

>>2609341
The butthurt emanating from you is ridiculous. You'd not be able to contain the jelly and butthurt if you knew where I lived.

>>2609287
The reason that there are so many foreign grad students and postdocs in US science departments is that there are so few Americans who qualify. American intellectual culture has been in decline for decades. This isn't the 1950s when Europe and Asia were still rebuilding after WWII.

Most well-educated Americans have attitudes like mine, which has nothing to do with love of country, but an acknowledgment that our country has a huge population of rednecks and other kinds of dumbasses.

>Great meat sandwiches
... yeah, I don't eat meat. Tofu burgers, anyone?

I think I should write a public diary when I've arrived. Clash of the cultures, must be funny to read after a year.

>>2609341
>It took me long enough to find it and I love it.
Too bad for the rest of us it's not in Europe. Of course, then you wouldn't get to feel superior to everyone around you.

>>2609313
Haha, awesome. Where you at?

>>2609366
see
>>2609229
>make sure that whenever you go to the international students office, you are VERY polite, and above all, NEVER appear to be superior or condescending. Americans often feel superior to other people, and don't think that nobody will think "Oh, Germany, we beat them in WWII (blah blah blah), so he has to be deferential to me." It's amazing, but it's just a sad fact.

Thanks for confirming my generalization.

Where will you be living OP? There's a new 20 story apartment high rise (with a Barnes and Nobles and some other stores at the bottom) opening up right adjacent to campus and right next to the train station. Very easy to hop on the train and go to New York.

>>2609358
>The reason that there are so many foreign grad students and postdocs in US science departments is that there are so few Americans who qualify.
Completely skirted the point. Why go to US science departments at all? Why cross an ocean for grad school? American universities aren't begging for applications from China/Iran/Europe; they're receiving them in droves.

>Most well-educated Americans have attitudes like mine
Keep telling yourself that. You are smart and superior.

>Where will you be living?
Probably in the regular dorms. Looking for an apartment on the free market is a bit difficult if a) you've only seen photos of it and b) have never been to the USA.

>>2609393 Why cross an ocean
There were other options, but my French isn't good enough to go to France, for example. No offense, but I'm not going to the USA because I think the universities are godly, but for studying somewhere else for a change.
(I don't say you don't have good universities, but it's not like the USA is the only country with such a thing.)

I am a faggot. Please rape my face.

>>2609393
The professors were trained when the US was superior (and weren't being killed by Germans and Russians, especially if they emigrated here); now, Americans under the age of 40 have to a considerable extent deserted the sciences. Do you even read newspapers? You're butthurt when someone criticized American culture for being non- (or anti-) intellectual, and you have so little idea of what is happening in your own country?

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgKepHebKRc
This is open testimony on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.

Go have another Big Mac and forget the whole thing.

>>2609380
Uhhhhh, what? Your generalization that Americans love to feel superior to Europeans/Chinese is supported by you feeling superior to other Americans? Brilliant.

This is why you don't have American friends, and only foreigners desperate for an American ambassador will tolerate you. You think it's because they're stupid/uneducated/rednecks/republican/redstaters and so they just don't get you. But in reality, you're a pompous prick with unwarranted self-worth, and people don't like you.

>>2609419
Americans are also more homophobic than Europeans, and suffer a much higher rate of sexual violence.

>>2609426
I like you no-name tripfag.

Now that you guys start arguing about how shitty and selfhating some Americans are, here's my German view of that.

I'm German and I don't love my country. I don't dislike it either; nationalism has no meaning for me. That's not historically motivated, it's simply the point of view that what matters in my life is primarily myself. I'm not part of a big community of Germans, I'm a human. If I had to limit myself to a region I'd say I'm European, but even that would just be to be able to say something when someone found it weird that I don't "belong" to a country.
There are some awesome people all around the world, and I don't see how having the same president, speaking the same language, having the same skin color would mean that I'm awesome too because some of my fellas are.
I'm not proud of what people in my country are capable of doing, because I'm not the people in my country. I'm an individual, and we've got the best marathon runner that doesn't make me better at sports.

>>2609426
The point was that many (not all) Americans can't stand anyone criticizing America, and that they get very hostile and angry when they perceive anyone criticizing any element of it--EVEN THE BREAD AND THE CHEESE.

And it is a FACT that Americans travel less than Europeans--mostly because the country is so big that it takes forever to get anywhere. There are quick trains from London to Paris. Not from Paris to New York.

Notice that I never said I hate America. I don't. I love it. But I'm not so chauvinistic to ignore the terrible things about it. The fact that the most popular politician today is Sarah Palin means that I don't really have to justify my beliefs to anyone who has enough intellectual interest to pass the time on a Saturday making conversation with some random German physicist on /sci/.

>>2609454
No. We don't hate people who hate America. If they don't like it that's fine. We hate you because you're a pretentious faggot

>>2609454
>Look mommy, I am trolling.
Well, at least I hope, for you, that you are.

>>2609454
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitanism#Philosophical_cosmopolitanism

>>2609458
There's nothing pretentious in anything I've written. But you sound like a hostile, defensive, chauvinistic moron. Don't you belong on /b/?

>>2609476
You like the bread? You take the train to Paris? You want Sarah Palin to be president? What's the problem?

I am an insufferable individual.

>>2609489
You punctuated that correctly. Good job! Here's your prize
http://www.powerplaysportscards.com/photos/k82.jpg

>>2609424
>This is open testimony on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.
Oh wow, republicans sure have cornered the market on stupid!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_McKinney

>Go have another Big Mac and forget the whole thing.
Yes, every American that won't wholesale denounce everything about our educational system, government, electorate is a Big Mac-eating, Walmart-shopping mouth-breather. You keep right on telling yourself that if someone disagrees with you on anything for any reason, it's because they're inferior to you. After all, you're so incredibly open-minded and liberal, right?

I'm an American-born individual educated entirely in the public school system prior to my current graduate study at Princeton (which is in America, FYI.) While earning my PhD, I'm receiving a generous wage while performing core scientific research funded largely by various branches of the federal government, resulting in the best possible resources at my disposal. You'll have to forgive me for disagreeing with your notion that the US is rife with anti-intellectualism.

>>2609433
Wow, that's a fascinating argument, and very relevant.

>>2609439
>I like you no-name tripfag.
<3

>>2609497
Another dangerous moron elected to the US Congress...who isn't a Republican...proves...that US culture isn't anti-intellectual? Or that there are lots of different kinds of dangerous morons around here?

I never denounced the American education system--I said that we are in decline and need help. And we do, because our great scientific intellectual heritage is at risk of being lost if we don't keep bringing in foreign students, postdocs, and professors.

As to the great research funding you're enjoying--hey, I never said we weren't RICH.

>>2609454
>And it is a FACT that Americans travel less than Europeans--mostly because the country is so big that it takes forever to get anywhere. There are quick trains from London to Paris. Not from Paris to New York.

Yes, bring up the superior European train systems! Good work so far, caricature of self-loathing American guy. So far you've covered Sarah Palin, travel, homophobia, creationism, Detroit, McDonald's, and Walmart. Bring up drug laws and the prison system, and you'll have exhausted your droll unoriginal default talking points.

Aside: I was pretty bummed recently when I couldn't take a train from NYC to LA, so I had to settle for a 5 hour flight on a 747 at 600 mph.

>The fact that the most popular politician today is Sarah Palin
Sure, the "most popular politician today" is the vice presidential nominee from two years ago that lost. Thanks for the lecture in reading the news though.

>means that I don't really have to justify my beliefs to anyone
Right. Everyone else is dumb, you're smart, we all got it. Also, you're not pretentious.

>>2609546 ad hominem ration growing and growing in every single post
Cool.

>>2609447
You sound like the right kind of American.

America these days are plagued with the most nationalistic retards, especially since 9/11, who have now proceeded to fuck over everything else. But there's a faction of libertarians/leftists that oppose the idiocy ruining the country.

>>2609556
I'm sorry you had witness this, future /sci/-neighbor. You are unaware of this particular American social dynamic of self-important hipsters, but I suspect you'll learn a bit about it when you move.

Congratulations on your success, and I hope you enjoy your time here. Perhaps we can attend a lecture together some time.

>>2609589
I'll print your trip on a tshirt so you can recognize me.

>>2609615
This is a throwaway trip, so I'll likely forget it. Just loudly announce that you're from 4chan prior to every lecture and I'll find you.

Just don't criticize America or Americans and you'll be fine.

>>2609637
Just don't say anything bad about the bread or there'll be trouble.

rutgersfag here. Are you going to live on Busch Campus? It's where most of the science buildings are and it's actually a very nice place to live, it's in Piscataway not New Brunswick.

>>2609022
>But from what I've heard a USA campus is like its own city with security on superparanoid levels. It's something at least.

It depends on the school and campus, but not really. Rutgers does has it's own dedicated police force (legitimate state police not mall security guards) but you rarely ever see them much outside of the football game(Not the good kind of football/soccer).

what are you currently doing in germany anyway? still studying or getting your doctorate?

Is OP a undergrad or graduate?

RU is a good University for undergrad (as long as you keep in mind that the deans and advisers have their heads up their asses most of time regrading policy) but the graduate program suck. You can't find people dumber anywhere else (assuming you can even understand Chinese or Hindi they're sprouting)

>>2609690 Busch Campus
Got two options, one I've forgotten and the other one is Busch.

>>2609715 what are you currently doing in germany anyway
Physics. I'm doing physics.

Congratulations Josef, I wish you the best of luck in your scholarly pursuits at Rutgers. I had a friend who went there and he only had good things to say.

>>2609741
If you want to actually learn, then live on Busch
If you want to party, drink, and be in a 100 girl orgy: go college ave
If you want to live in oblivion, see Livingston
If you're secretly a masochist, live on Cook/Douglas

>>2609813
Now that was some life-changing advice. Tell me more about the dorms. Why's Busch for studying? ... also what about the others? Oblivion? 100 girls? (Don't you have to blow yourself up for that?)

>>2609761
Thanks :)