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[robot_god]

I heard today that I may have a job offering with a branch of Pfizer in Indiana.  I don't have any details yet, all I know is that someone told someone who told my father while he was working, so I dunno what's the real deal yet.

So does anyone know anything about that state?  Taking this possible job will mean having to move and transfer schools, but they will pay the tuition for my final two years of school.  I don't know how universal an Indiana pharmacy license is, but I know that a NY license is valid in every state except California and I doubt an Indy license carries as much weight.  Ballpark guess would be that it's only good in about 35 states.  If I finish my school where I am now, I'm going to have to take out loans for the last two years.  Of course, I am dying to get out of my parent's house, so that is also a factor.

So I dunno, I don't feel strongly compelled to accept this, but I am considering it.  If you know anything about Indiana that's good or bad, please let me know.  All I know about it is what I've forgotten from Where in the US is Carmen Sandiago?.

[littlefallsmets]

Axl Rose grew up there.

I think, either way, that should say all that needs to be said.

[AugustWest]

Our culture is so homogenous that Indiana is going to be very much like any place else in the US, if not the developed world.

Also, they think that Bobby Knight is a hell of a guy.  I've always found this highly inexplicable.

[CortJstr]

Our culture is so homogenous that Indiana is going to be very much like any place else in the US, if not the developed world.

Also, they think that Bobby Knight is a hell of a guy.  I've always found this highly inexplicable.

Why have none of the players kicked him square in the balls? I'm being totally serious. I can't fathom how not one player has physically assaulted him. If I could play basketball I'd try out for that team just for the opportunity to hit him with a folding chair.

[linnea]

I have never been to Indiana. However, as someone who has huge student loan payments on a $34,000 debt, I would say "Go west, young man!"

[Ben-San]

I technically spent a semester in Indiana but it was right on the Ohio border at a quasi-hippie school. Mostly I recall it being very flat. I once asked why there were no hills and was told that there were and that I was in fact standing on one. Either I was being fucked with or these people have no concept of terrain.

Seriously, it is like a game of Civilization on an Old planet. Grain everywhere and no damn hills or mountains.

[AugustWest]

I think there are a couple of factors.  First and simplest, Bobby Knight is a big guy.  His IMDB bio lists him as 6'5".  So it's not like Wally Cox is pulling this crap on people.  On the other hand, the people he's abusing are large atheletes as well so...

The other factor is that the kids he's abusing idolize him and very much want to be a part of his program.  Hell, the kid he smacked upside the other day damn near thanked him for the pimp slap.  His parents bent over backwards to support Knight in the national media.  Not that I think this latest incident is that bad (hardly worthy of notice, really) but the family's reaction does indicate the sort of esteem The General is held in among certain groups.

[AugustWest]

Seriously, it is like a game of Civilization on an Old planet. Grain everywhere and no damn hills or mountains.

Hell of can for the Civ reference.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Vincennes, Indiana is extremely boring.  The job's not there, is it?

[Turbo Ninja]

Indianapolis is a fine second-tier American city with several options for fun and amusement (just don't use them up too quickly).  Bloomington is a fun town if you like hanging out with college kids in bars.  Stay out of Gary - in fact, just turn around the second you start to smell it.  Evansville is a small town with a heart of gold and a small-time minor league baseball team which plays in an ancient stadium.  South Bend is Notre Dame and not much else.  Larry Bird is from a place called French Lick, but it's nowhere near as exciting as it sounds.

For being a Northern state, I've met a remarkable number of racist xenophobes in Indiana.

They used to have issues with Daylight Saving(s) Time.  I am not sure if this is resolved yet.

The landscape is indeed flat and grain-oriented.  Ohio is the state immediately east of Indiana.

[AugustWest]

For being a Northern state, I've met a remarkable number of racist xenophobes in Indiana.

Because racism only exists in the South?

[CortJstr]

Stay out of Gary - in fact, just turn around the second you start to smell it.

Thanks for the earworm. Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana

DAMMIT

[Sub_Topical]

It depends on which school and where it's at. The Ninja dude above basically gave a good short rundown. One of the mini-metropli would be pretty fine OK living. The Culver Academy (Culver, IN, natch), on the other hand, basically offered an A&W and beef cows for Saturday night entertainment.

[V-Adore]

Thanks for the earworm. Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana

DAMMIT

CortJstr, believe it when I say from the core of my heart: fuck youuuuuu!

Oh Jesus it's never going to leave.

[CortJstr]

CortJstr, believe it when I say from the core of my heart: fuck youuuuuu!

Oh Jesus it's never going to leave.

I can never hear the name of that town and not sing the song in my head. I'm still pissed at Family Guy for doing Shipoopi on Sunday.




With a capital T and that rhymes with P ... damn you high school musicals!