Moving to Montana
Monday August 28, 2006 at 7:04 PM
Over the past week, I moved out to Bozeman, Montana for graduate school. Last Sunday, I drove about 1,118 miles to get out here. It took about 15 hours driving time, and I averaged 70.44mph and 35.06mpg. Considering I had 820GB of live disk space with me, that gave my car an average data transfer rate of 117.48Mb/s, or the equivalent of 78 residential DSL connections. 
Thankfully, I had a hotel to stay in for two days. On Tuesday night I stayed at a friend’s house (Taylor), and then on Wednesday night I slept in a Physics conference room on campus. From Thursday to Sunday I stayed with another friend (Cody), sleeping on their couch. This whole time I was calling several dozen people with apartments/rooms listed in the local paper and around campus. I spent several hours outside Arby’s because they have free wireless Internet.
Because Bozeman is such a large college town, their population has slowly doubled over the past week as students are coming back. With thousands of students looking for housing, most apartments are filled the first day they are listed. Late Saturday night I finally found a place to move into! For the next few months I’m sharing an apartment with Chad, who was a Civil Engineering student at MSU. This is just in time, because I’m starting school Monday.
Also, because of my fellowship position at WTI, I have a very nice office (okay, it’s a cubicle) with free parking that is walking distance from campus. Yes, it means I’ll be walking a few blocks in freezing cold, but at least I can laugh at the students scrambling to find a parking space before their next class starts.
