Tallahassee Wishlist

The following is a list of things I would like to acquire as I move to Tallahasee to begin my Ph.D. program this August:

• A new computer (current one is several years old, has iffy performance at times, and the hard drive is basically full)
• A laptop (more and more, this seems like a wise thing to own – as a father of two and a Ph.D. student, it would probably be useful to have the option of being out of the house and working at the same time, and yet not be forced to be on campus using a computer lab or reliant on some 30-minute-limit per use public library computer)
• A new backpack (the most necessary item of the bunch, I suppose; my current one is slowly disintegrating)
• New clothes (esp. shorts! In Florida, will I ever want to wear long pants again?)
• A new couch (our current one is rather worn down and I’d rather not invest the effort into moving it)
• Some new books (it wouldn’t hurt to beef up my collection of free will literature, since that is what I’ll be focusing on; I own surprisingly few of the “standards”)
• A portable mp3 player – e.g., an iPod (I’ve got plenty of music on my computer, but nothing portable on which to play it. I’ve heard that you can probably get a basic mp3 player for as low $20 nowadays. Really, I should have purchased one of these two years ago, since I imagine my daily commuting time in Atlanta has far outshined what I’ll be doing in Tally. Then again, Tally doesn’t have a train. It’s all bus, baby.)

The following is a list of things I am likely to acquire as I move to Tallahasee to begin my Ph.D. program this August:

• A new backpack (for the reasons stated above)

Ahhh, the life of a grad student!