[OT] Getting a graduate degree

[Tony Hammitt]

Who says you can't get experience in Grad school?  Hell, by the time I 
started grad school, I already had a paper published, a $350,000 
research grant and was writing commercial engineering/data analysis 
software for several businesses.  By the time I got out of grad school, 
I had 5 years industry experience.  They paid me to go to school, too. 
 I agree that if you aren't getting paid to go to grad school, you're 
getting a raw deal.  Grad students work _hard_.

So, anyway, I'd much rather hire a person with a graduate degree with 
internships and other "in-school" experience than someone with just a 
bachelor's degree, but maybe I'm just prejudiced...

So what does this have to do with Linux?  hmmm... data analysis 
clustering projects???  I want a beowulf cluster of those!!! :)

Gerald Combs wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Dave Hull wrote:
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>>Bottom line, if you come out of grad school with an MBA and no experience, I'm 
>>hiring the guy with no MBA and some experience all other things being equal.
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>Fast forward to two years after he graduates.  Would you be more willing
>to hire someone with four years of experience, or two years + an MBA?
>Just curious.
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