'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
a quick google suggests that the current generation of hospital ships travel at about 17 knots/20MPH
To give an idea: Expedia says it should take 18 hours to drive from Baltimore to NOLA. And that's a far more direct route than a ship would have to take.
In better news, the intercom is announcing that the office is closing at 2.
I think there's another hospital ship already there, or arriving soon. As well as an aircraft carrier and some other ships.
I'll be thinking of you as I watch Serena and Federer tonight. This year I remembered my camera, so I might get pics,
Jealousy! Please take many.
Le N, I've heard that UVA (I live in VA, work in DC) has offered to take a few students if need be. (UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
I know SMU is registering students on a case by case basis.
As far as the hospital ships go, I imagine they are meant to be used more as temporary replacements for the abandoned hospitals than as triage centers.
Le N, I've heard that UVA (I live in VA, work in DC) has offered to take a few students if need be. (UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
I know that the law school here at UC-Berkeley is accepting 20 2L/3L students tuition-free, with priority given to California residents. The publishing companies are arranging for free textbooks for them.
(UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
Not true: [link]
(on edit, I don't mean to suggest that they didn't say they wouldn't, just that they are doing so now).
University of Wisconsin, Illinois at Chicago, and Chicago Loyola have all jumped on the bandwagon of offering automatic admittance and financial aid packages to displaced students. I know a lot of other are doing the same.