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By catdynamics on May 6, 2009.

if you won the lottery would you stay in grad school?
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Debt - now and then - from Seeking α

Krugman: no comment - classy

An old friend of mine from a small university town in the UK had dinner with Obama some weeks ago: said Obama was unusually up on a number of issues, in a good, smart way, and asked very good questions, iteratively; also said he was unusual in being polite and considerate of everyone, even the less important people.
He also said Hillary had become a total Obama fanboy...
I am paraphrasing, obviously. Heavily.

Graduate advisors - good and bad
ok, the mood chart is a bit over the top
But, one of the things about recent US privacy issues, like HiPPA and the broader FERPA interpretations, is that advisors can not ask a lot of things about their advisees.
We literally may not ask - it is not that we don't care, sometimes.
This does preclude some past abuses, but it also precludes a lot of current concerns.

They're just resting...

Cool car pic

If you won the lottery would you stay in grad school?

Talent vs Hard Work

101st Carnival of Space

It was sunny in Cambridge?

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