Baltimore gets cold. The furnace in my house is broken. It's January. Brrrrrrr.
If you come by, bring your ski clothes. 

Before 2008  begins to take over and completely washes the last year from our memory I'd like to share some advice I learned from the last four months of 2007 in making the adjustment to school at the JHU SON:  

1. Don’t by your books new. Contact students in the class ahead of you for copies of used first-year books.
2. Choose to live near a shuttle line. Driving to and from school is a pain and parking is expensive. Taking the shuttle to and from school is safe. Let the bus drivers be the aggressive ones behind the wheel.
3. Take Intersession Courses if you need to catch up on credits. There are two weeks in between first and second term that are dedicated to classes. The credits are attached to spring term, so the expense is not exponential. Summer school would be more expensive.
4. Take the Community Outreach Class if you even remotely interested in learning more about Baltimore. It’s a one credit class offered fall term. I learned a tremendous amount about the city and gained a much broader view of the community.
5. If flying out to Baltimore, be aware that luggage gets lost in airports. Always put your name, phone number, and destination address inside your bag.
6. If the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing seems like it might be where you see yourself for the next two years, speak with some students about their experiences. Everyone is different in his or her own perception of school. If you come by my place, bring your ski clothes and bundle up!