I just listened to Obama's address to the National Academy of Sciences. It was good, in that he respects science. Apparently he is only one of four presidents to address the academy in modern times, and he and JFK were the only two to address the academy during the first meeting of the Academy after they took office.
Anyway. He reaffirmed and announced anew several initiatives. One of these is to increase the number of graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation. This is great! There are a few people in my department who received these, and I am not one of them. In ten years, hopefully they will not be quite so difficult to get. Less competitive, but just as prestigious.
It is like how the SAT scoring changed between when my sister took them and when I took them. Her score was more impressive when she took them, than when I took them. Or when I took the GRE before they started having people write essays instead of doing those great logic problems. I rocked those logic problems.
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I'm optimistic with Obama. He seems to be reaching in all directions to achieve his change. I'm hoping he doesn't over-reach and crash, but we needed a person with that sort of ambition.
Ron, he does keep reminding us all that he can't do it alone. :-)
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