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by mechanical_fish
6556 days ago
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Yeah. I noticed that it seemed to be a wiki, and was tempted to try it out... but I'm sure you can understand why I was reluctant to paste this giant glob of opinions all over your outline page. :) Incidentally, no discussion of this topic is complete without an administration of the Greenspun test. Read the link I posted here, and the comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117378 If your partner can read all that and still be sure that he wants to be a professor... he needs to at least try going to grad school, because he's truly in love. ;) But I still recommend SF over Indiana, despite the fact that I grew up in Ohio and should really be sticking up for the Midwest... |
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Something I found especially interesting was your point about unfashionable research not getting respect (and funding) in academia, even if it works out. I used to work at Caltech, and the biggest surprise for me was how much time the P.I. I was working for had to spend on grant proposals--and doing the political work to get people excited about his stuff. It struck me as pretty similar to entrepreneurship, actually, but with money coming from a very different source than happy customers.
I'm going to spend today and tomorrow acting as if I canceled my admission this year. Then I'll see how I feel on Friday.