if you won the lottery would you stay in grad school?
and more links, of random interest to me
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.