Caltech students in Hawking's lecture

inverse
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:49:55 +0000

biggs,

I think this how to salute authority things is being blow out of proportion. Just do whatever make you feel comfortable. I am an older alum and also have S1 and D1 currently in graduate school there, with D2 coming as a freshman. S1 and D1 (and myself) tend to be more old fasion in this regard. A professor actually suggested my D1 to ask her brother to greet him on first name. But they tend to be more comfortable with formal salute until they get to know professor better and until professor insist on it. There will be time to adjust and either way is not a big deal.

I believe Ben is passionate about Caltech being a place that authority of idea trump idea of authority. It is a small place, you run into president, Nobel laureates so often that distance tend to diminished.

As to Chemical Engineering at Caltech, it is most exciting. Please look up the website http://www.cce.caltech.edu/