I have found the holy grail, Boys and Girls, and it's called "faculty candidate dinners." I had had lunch with faculty candidates before, but who hasn't? I'd been having them since my days at the Bo'. But those lunches required work. You had to tell them about the school and ask them questions and listen to their spiel. A very pleasant process, yes, and one that I will keep signing up for (free food is free food), but I now have higher heights to aspire to.
Sachini had briefed me on these events before, which seems to happen more frequently in the biostat department, so I wasn't completely unaware. But the faculty candidate dinner pretty much boils down to free dinner at fancy restaurant + pleasant small talk with candidate, faculty, and perhaps other students. I hope we never find a suitable candidate. There's no research to read up on. I don't have to talk about my work interests. Just free food and conversation (and, at tonight's restaurant, a visit to the fish display case to see where our dinner came from, at Who's insistence). And you know me, they already had me at free food.
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