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Re:Don't try to dodge the recession with grad school by timr on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @12:42PM (#464303)
"A cost/benefit analysis on grad school can never be representative, because the experiences, skills, and research can't be quantified. You might become interested in a new field, create an operating system (see Linus Torvalds' masters thesis), or meet your future wife."

Right. And if you join the Navy, you might get to see the world, and you might marry a beautiful Polynesian girl!

You don't do these sorts of things for the incidental benefits.

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Re:Don't try to dodge the recession with grad school by Retric on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:43PM (#464964)
Why not?

Plenty of (stupid) people join _ because they like the look of the uniform.

From the hacker side of things I don't think most people joined the NSA because of the salary and benefits. Doing a cost benefit analysis and ignoring the small things is missing the point.

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