[lbo-talk] Time Use studies

[Andy F]

On 3/26/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > All I remember along these lines was how certain
> > people got dropped
> > from PhD programs after the qualifying exams for
> > lacking the right
> > attitude, but as I recall he didn't really give any
> > actual examples of
> > people, anonymous or otherwise.
>
> In many (too many) years of grad education at several
> schools on both sides, I never heard of that.

That was my reaction.  I've heard of people being quizzed about their
level of motivation, but that was more like a "are you sure you want
to subject yourself to this?" kind of thing.

Until not too long ago the ocean/atmospheric science dept. at MIT had
an attrition rate of 40%, but I think that was because they were MIT
and had to be badass.  The grad students got together and informed
them that word was getting out and people didn't want to waste their
life at a program like that.  So it dropped to something more normal.

Thanks for the interesting corrective about LSATs, etc.  I'll have to
ping my friend about that -- I think he mostly liked telling the
story.

-- 
Andy