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>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
It is, however, undeniably overcast-prone and short-dayed in winter. I think it’s worth it, but it is a legitimate problem for some people. To fend off uninformed remarks elsewhere in the comments, here’s Wikipedia on the climate of Seattle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate And to fend off uninformed remarks about seasonal affective disorder, which is real but doesn’t account for every instance of feeling…
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
It doesn't sound that you yourself have lived in Seattle for very long. The 2-3 nice months in summer are all you get before the continuously gloomy rest of the year. Check out the Bay Area sometimes to get a serious weather-culture-shock.
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
Its also surrounded by the two incredible cities of Vancouver and Portland (a few hours drive to either). Also, the region is home to some of the best beers in the world (if you're a fan of hoppy beer).
And yes, Seattle traffic is terrible. It's one downside.
I personally enjoy the rainy days. They're quiet and peaceful, and make the air smell good. There's nothing quite like a nice rainy day when you're drinking coffee and working on your computer, in a plaid flannel shirt.
Is it still the case that you need straight As in math and physics to get into CS at UW? It's insane that they crank out psych and english majors by the thousands but keep a lid on CS.
It's both a disappointing waste of talent and bad for the Seattle startup community.
UW CS had a huge increase in admissions (and yield) for the Ph.D. program this year. IIRC they mentioned the incoming class size is almost twice what they had last year.
Aided by a recent budget increase, the department also hired a massive number of new faculty this year.
This article focuses more on potential employees graduating from UW, but Seattle is a great place to found a startup. In the Valley, everything is pretty crowded, and if you can find real estate, it's not going to be cheap. In Seattle, it's a buyers market and you can grab some office space or a hacker house for a lot less. There are more startup resources in the Valley (accelerators/angels/VCs), but that doesn't mea…
The tech community here is great, and the university is moving towards supporting entre x CS... especially through its CS Entrepreneurship courses.
There's definitely work to do, but the city and the university are moving in the right direction.
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year. Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.