My meeting with Jens Zorn did not go very well.

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He did not give me a counter-offer; more or less he tried to persuade me to stay the course on my current path. And there certainly would be advantages to that, but they are primarily the advantages of inertia; I wouldn't have to deal with changes like finding a new job, dealing with a long-distance relationship, finding housing and health insurance in a new city. (One advantage of London if UCL takes me: health insurance is not a problem!)

He was also fairly critical,...