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April 25, 2006
Brooklyn Bound
It’s official: I have accepted a position as a high school math teacher at Poly Prep, a private school in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. My god, I’m about to become a New Yorker…. To all of the hundreds of people to whom I’ve said “I love visiting NY but I don’t think I could ever live there”, well, I guess we’ll find out, eh?
Poly seems like a really wonderful and interesting place, and I’m excited to be a part of it. Obviously it’s significantly different from Cristo Rey and Wash. U, so in many ways this will be a new experience. In other ways, though, it feels to me like a sort of homecoming; the similarities between Poly and USM are myriad, and I’m confident I’ll fit in pretty easily.
Fitting in with Brooklyn is another matter, however. I’m really anxious about finding an apartment; the cost of living is startling. According to Craigslist, a 1-bedroom starts at around 1200/month, and (forgive me) I’m just too old and weird to live with a roommate anymore. Unless it’s Alli, with whom I’ve been talking about the possibility of getting a 2-bedroom near Columbia. I think that’d be pretty awesome, but I’m worried about the commute. Lots of logistics to figure out there.
Anyway, finally the job search is over and I know more-or-less where I’ll be for the foreseeable future. Amazing.
Posted by alex at April 25, 2006 11:50 AM