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And so I begin my third week of life in New York City.  I am still using free time I have to explore, but most of my time is spent preparing for class, working at ABC, and recovering from work. ... In the world of news coverage, everyone is busy, stressed, and frenzied all day, everyday. ...Things really got moving when I was asked to help with the final work on the Michael Jackson piece that aired on Primetime last Thursday.

Wake up to NPR 88.3 WBGL 6:14 a.m. - one minute to relax and motivate. ...Put on my coat, "do I have everything?"  Take a deep breath and leave. Walk around the corner to catch the 1 or 9. Greet the security guard outside the GOP office, "Hello, how are you?" Sit down in my cubicle at 8:15. The week begins.

...by 10:30 the place is buzzing. Phones are ringing, people are running around, and deals are being made. We only have an office of about 30 people but for me it feels like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Once 12:30 rolls around most people break for lunch, but this is not some leisurely bite to eat at Commons. I hurry down 20 floors to the local deli, pick up a sandwich, and head back to my cubicle. As my boss says, every minute spent away from the desk is a lost opportunity.

I have found the "good life" in New York. It cannot be found in the lights of Times Square or the gleam of the marble floors at the Met. You will not find it on the ice at Rockefeller Center, nor in the constellation of Grand Central Station.

Working and studying in a global city has made me realize how important it is not to live in a bubble, as students sometimes do at Hamilton. In my internship in foreign exchange at Lehman Brothers, I repeatedly find myself sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the latest GDP numbers to be announced ...

"It wasn't about September 11th," David Niles told us.  We had just seen his film "Remember" in the Tribute exhibit in the Standard Oil Building. Filmed with HDTV technology, "Remember" depicts life before and then immediately after the September 11th terrorist attacks. 

I find that New York in winter is more attractive from my window than from the street.  The subways, the dirty streets, everyone bundled up and rushing to get inside - this doesn't offer a new resident the finer glimpses of Manhattan.  From my window when I was sick, all I saw was the view – the glittering lights, the Statue of Liberty, everything from a distance.  Up close, however, some of that shine wears off. 

Last night, the Yield Management group at Chase Manhattan Bank had its holiday dinner at a Brazilian restaurant in Midtown. ... waiters offered us 17 different kinds of meat, including lamb chops, prime rib, pork sausage, chicken sausage, steak, prime rib wrapped in bacon, salmon, ribs and chicken hearts. My co-workers at Chase really make me feel at home.  It was one night that I will not forget.

For some reason, people always ask me for directions, a big mistake. As soon as I stepped on to the ACE platform, I noticed him out of the corner of my eye, a kid with way too many bags to be carrying all by himself. ... He (asked) if I knew how he could get to 42nd Street so I pulled out my map and helped him devise a plan. I wished him a good journey and a nice life.

When the chemistry department moves into the new science center summer 2004, it won’t be taking its 13-year-old NMR along. A nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR) is a versatile, yet fundamental piece of equipment for chemists.  Hamilton College, under the leadership of Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a $238,356 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to support the purchase of a new 500 Mhz NMR.