Pros and Cons of Hamilton?

merc81
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:20:20 +0000

Regarding climate, consider that Hamilton’s atmosphere can seem especially suitable for academic pursuits. In the interview linked below a new professor contrasted his impressions of Hamilton to those formed at a West Coast school:

I didn’t have snow where I went to graduate school in California . . . . [This] feels like a more appropriate place to be teaching and reading a lot of Russian literature than under palm trees . . . .

He also evidently appreciates Hamilton’s environment generally:

As a grad student I taught at a big research institution, Stanford, and there are very smart students there as well, but they weren’t the ideal I had in mind, which was the engaged, enthusiastic liberal arts student who’s in it for the ideas, for the love of knowledge …