Sam spent most of his time last fall applying and preparing for job interviews across the country. He applied to South Carolina, Indiana, University of Washington, University of South Florida, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and BYU for Assistant Professor positions to begin Fall of 2013. He participated in phone interviews with South Florida and Indiana, and was invited to do campus interviews with South Florida and BYU. He felt really good about his South Florida interview and was so excited to receive an offer about a week later, right before Christmas. After negotiating a higher salary, (yes!) we accepted the offer and will be moving to Tampa, Florida this summer.
We have been making moving plans since the winter break from school and the contract came in the mail on Friday. We will be placing our house for sale the early part of March and see what happens from there. Things just got a whole lot of exciting over here. Congratulations Sam!