Yet Another List

But this one is relevant!  I'm back on the PhD application train (third time is the charm, right?) and have finally made a list of schools.  I'm not going to bore you blog readers with my entire thought process behind choosing these schools, because really, you don't care (and I'm not going to make my hardcore "pro/con" lists until some of these places actually accept me).  But maybe you do care about the various locations wherein I may find myself next Fall (or at least I'd like to think you do).  So here they are, in alphabetical order, with their pros and cons (and I've only actually been to three of these places, so some of them I'm just making up).

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD)

• Pro:  It's only an hour away from Washington, D.C., Laura Taylor, and Cafe Rio.
• Con:  I'll probably get shot.

Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA)

• Pros:  I can navigate the place blindfolded; most of the people I like are there; it's just freaking amazing; UBurger.
• Cons:  I would have said things are expensive, but that was before I moved to the Island of the Six-Dollar Box of Cereal (that's actually what "Oahu" means in Hawaiian).  I got nothing; Boston is absolute perfection.

University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)

• Pro:  Living in Missouri might be kind of cool.
• Con:  Living in Missouri might be kind of lame.

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

• Pro:  It's only a three-hour drive from my parents' house.
• Con:  It's only a three-hour drive from my parents' house.

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)

• Pro:  There's a really good Greek Pizza place in East Lansing.
• Con:  The really good Greek Pizza place is pretty much the only thing East Lansing has going for it.

University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington, CT)

• Pros:  It's New England (i.e. practically Boston); I can pretend I'm friends with the Gilmore Girls.
• Cons:  I have never heard of Farmington, Connecticut before.  And probably neither has anybody else.  

Penn State Hershey (Hershey, PA)

• Pro:  Chocolate.
• Con:  Hershey's Chocolate.

University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)

• Pros:  How cool would it be to say that I got to live in South Africa?
• Cons:  I will probably get shot more often than I would living in Baltimore.

If anybody has actually been to these places and would like to chip in useful living advice, please comment!