I posted a comment at Chad Orzel's "Uncertain Principles" and don't think that it needs to be crossposted here, or at "Total Drek's" blog.
As an aside to Steinn Sigur�sson, who shares a Clatech alumnus status with me, the greatest change at Caltech since it went co-ed in the mid 1970s is the tripling of the Postdoc population. Undergrad and grad registration roughly the same. The rise of the Master's degree nationwide and the rise of the Postdoc (especially in the USA and Japan) are linked in some deep way. Living-on-a-shoestring Theory offers hints of a Theory Of Everydegree. To begin with, postgraduate education has many invisible extra dimensions...
I posted a comment at Chad Orzel's "Uncertain Principles" and don't think that it needs to be crossposted here, or at "Total Drek's" blog.
As an aside to Steinn Sigur�sson, who shares a Clatech alumnus status with me, the greatest change at Caltech since it went co-ed in the mid 1970s is the tripling of the Postdoc population. Undergrad and grad registration roughly the same. The rise of the Master's degree nationwide and the rise of the Postdoc (especially in the USA and Japan) are linked in some deep way. Living-on-a-shoestring Theory offers hints of a Theory Of Everydegree. To begin with, postgraduate education has many invisible extra dimensions...