MenageaHeinlein

I'm glad I saw this linked off of the SMBC Facebook page.

I'm a political science/economics undergrad that'll be headed off to grad school in 2016, but I want to go to grad school for computer science. For a while I anticipated being a "methods guy" in a more mathy department, but I realized that all the work that I was really interested in came largely from computer science or math (Game theory, natural language processing, etc) and became somewhat disillusioned with the idea of sticking in Political science. Doing a bid as an intern in a Senator's office, though an incredible and thoroughly surreal experience, was the nail in the coffin for my interest in political science as life post-undergrad.

Because you worked in the senate for a while, and you got your PhD in Political science, I'm particularly interested to know: what kept you invested in the field? How did your experience in your doctoral program differ from colleagues in other disciplines?

Thanks for doing this, and thanks to your clever bastard of a brother too.

Thanks for the prompt reply. Despite the lack of exposure to other programs, were your experiences in the MA and PhD programs in Georgetown generally positive?