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Bill is in Virginia at Browntree College for his first onsite interview. He arrived late yesterday afternoon and will spend the next 2 days meeting with every professor in the chemistry department, the heads of the physics department and biology department, 2 deans, the president of the college; giving a presentation on his PhD and postdoc research; and teaching a sophomore level chemistry class. Then in between these appointments he'll have dinners and lunches and breakfasts with various members of the faculty and some students. Solid-packed scheduled days from 7:30 AM to well past 7 PM. Yikes.
This is a really good place for the first interview experience. It's a school that neither of us are absolutely invested in (although it's certainly on our list of possibilities) so there's no real pressure about the learning curve, plus Bill has already met with one of the professors at a conference this summer. They spent an hour and a half chatting over coffee, so someone on their search committee has been spreading the word about how wonderful a candidate Bill is -- should be a piece of cake from here. Or it's nice to have some groundwork laid. So here's hoping!