I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to UIUC, and I thoroughly unenjoyed the trip back. It seems Baton Rouge is the most difficult city to fly into, but the easiest to fly out of. Curses for being stuck in Dallas-Ft. Worth due to missing the final flight to Baton Rouge from mechanical errors in Chicago.
The visit to UIUC has renewed an interest of mine in fullerenes, aka Buckyballs. Okay, actually it has renwed an interest in large molecule diffraction.
Like any good researching student, I have downloaded the relevant papers in PDF and will read them between four and five months later.
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Oh no! I was stuck in DFW overnight once because the airport doesn't work when it's raining. How long were you there?
It was less than 12 hours. Luckily I had invested the $11 for traveler's insurance and will get reimbursed for hotel and food. If you're flying out of DFW or Chicago-O'Hare (or any major hub, probably, bot I've only been to those two and Atlanta) and it's the last flight to your destination that day, I highly recommend the insurance. Murphy's law demands it.
Ah, grad school visits. Where it's all too easy to get drunk at the Prof's house the night before your flight back home.
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