Thanks to my friend Nick Vu for sending me this fabulous Ted talk on education and creativity. I needed to see this tonight. Education has been on my mind a lot lately because I am spending many summer hours sorting through possible PhD programs for 2011. (Applications are due this winter.)
I feel myself slowly becoming an academic, and I keep flopping between resisting and succumbing to this trajectory. Perhaps it’s all inevitable: my life path took hold with my overly-zealous encyclopedia reading in 2nd grade.
