Whats so special about Viterbi?

GroovyGeek
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:03:57 +0000

dt, that’s amazing and inspiring.

“Fully funded” PhD scholarships are the absolute norm in engineering and the sciences, with very few exceptions. The exceptions are usually offered to students who meet the academic requirements but are not within the pool of students who are offered stipends. Virtually all schools do this, but given what I said above it is economic insanity to take up a school on that offer, unless you have a sugar daddy/mommy.

This is not intended to minimize dt’s son’s accomplishments. Having the responsibility to work on student debt right out of school is amazing. I have a colleague who is 10 years out of grad school (where they had a scholarship), has had a great-paying job for all of these 10 years, and is still working on undergrad debt.