<p>Can you tell me what percentage of students of students go home during fall break?</p>
<p>You mean for the weekend? My kid never did. I suppose it’s a matter of distance. </p>
<p>Mine has not gone home, but once we went there to be with him rather than going on Meliora weekend. We’re doing the same this year, but instead of staying in Rochester we’re headed to Niagara Falls, Canada. One year he stayed there - no complaints on his end. Many stay.</p>
<p>If you haven’t been to Niagara-on-the-Lake, it’s a pretty tourist town. We have on occasion gone to Toronto and come back so we’d see the kid coming and going. </p>
<p>Also, at some point head east, driving along the lake. Beautiful apple country. Sodus Bay has a neat museum in a decommissioned lighthouse. A little bit further is Chimney Rock State Park. Chalk cliffs along the shore that look completely out of place in NY–belong somewhere like New Mexico!!</p>
<p>Hmmm…. I have been in every part of New Mexico and I can say with confidence that New Mexico doesn’t have ANY chalk cliffs. (Sandstone–yes, granite–yes, tuff–yes. Chalk–no.)</p>
<p>(Also, Chimney Bluffs State Park — waaaaayyyyyyy too green to exist in New Mexico.)</p>
<p>New Mexico’s Chimney Rock:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hcn.org/40years/contests/the-natural-west/chimney-rock-ghost-ranch-new-mexico”>http://www.hcn.org/40years/contests/the-natural-west/chimney-rock-ghost-ranch-new-mexico</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://blaineharrington.photoshelter.com/image/I0000hjW0enNs1Nk”>http://blaineharrington.photoshelter.com/image/I0000hjW0enNs1Nk</a></p>
<p>White Cliffs of Erie doesn’t sound right</p>
<p>It’s actually on Lake Ontario, not Erie (White Cliffs of Ontario? It would sound like its in Canada). We’ve hiked that state park for one of our wedding anniversaries and have a pic of us at it on our wall. Nice place! We were at the Sodus Pt Lighthouse too, and further north, the St Lawrence River easily ranks #1 on my all time favorite (most beautiful) rivers with its gorgeous blue color.</p>
<p>wayoutwestmom—</p>
<p>Please don’t take my description of Chimney BLUFFS (my initial mistake) SP so literally!! I never said YOUR cliffs in NM were chalk(geology’s not my thing), and said LIKE New Mexico to imply the strange wind-sculpted hoodoo structures I’ve seen all over the west. I was actually complementing your dramatic western landscape, as this place looks out of place to me. I’m not insulting NM, not at all!</p>
<p>image:
<a href=“http://www.inforochester.com/images/chimneyb1.jpg”>http://www.inforochester.com/images/chimneyb1.jpg</a></p>
<p>I know–I was just kidding.</p>
<p>Chimney Bluffs does look ….odd…for New York, but those cliffs really don’t look like hoodoos. (See; <a href=“Hoodoo (geology) - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(geology)</a> ). Hoodoos are freestanding columns, typically with multicolored layers or striations and often have undercut capstones. </p>
<p>(Not a geologist either, but have hiked a lot of badlands with friends who are geologists….)</p>
<p>I think the closest analog for Chimney Bluff’s spires in New Mexico might be the Kasha-Katuwe National Monument’s tuff cliffs. </p>
<p>Kasha-Katuwe images:</p>
<p><a href=“Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks and Slot Canyon”>http://www.explorenm.com/hikes/TentRocks/</a></p>
<p>Chimney Bluffs images: </p>
<p><a href=“Chimney Bluffs State Park - Eroded Remains of Drumlins - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation”>http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/54313.html</a></p>
<p>Totally different geology involved, though.</p>
<p>EDIT; Chimney Bluffs are glacial drumlins (rubble deposits left behind by retreating glaciers)—and apparently they are quite common in the Finger Lakes regions. Cornell’s geology dept has a number of images on its site of other drumlins in upstate NY. </p>
<p>How difficult is Biomedical Engineering here? Is there any grade deflation? What kind of courses do Biomedical engineering students take at UR?</p>
<p>hows the international relations program? i’ve heard that rochester’s poli sci is really good so im hoping that IR major is just as strong. im mostly into IR but im keeping my options open as im interested in going into other fields such as optics! </p>