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In the wake of the Colorado shootings, the scientific community should pay more attention to the psychological wellbeing of emerging scientists.

If I'm a competitive student, with a very good record and lots of promise, my decision on what grad school to attend will probably depend on pay, faculty, and facilities. In that order.

As Dwight Eisenhower once said, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." The same may be said for careers.

To choose a career path without first examining all the options--in detail--would be to sell myself short. I intend to be as mindful as possible about the steps I take once I leave graduate school.

America's place in the scientific universe is different, as is the way science and scientists are perceived by the society we work within.

"I haven't given up, although I've thought about it."

I've come to that point in graduate school at which you dislike everything and everybody and want to do whatever you have to do to escape as quickly as possible.