A few of us had lunch with the seminar speaker today. Very nice guy, interesting work, but somewhere in the middle we got into a discussion about grants, funding, and alternative careers. He filled us in on the bleak atmosphere out there: too little money, too many grants.
All and all, it was a little depressing.
When I told my friend about what we talked about, all she could say was, "Well of course you don't tell grad students about how hard funding is. That's like a mean adult telling a child there is no Santa Claus"
