Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> [ lots of stuff ]

I'll second everything she said, including helping you find and get 
involved in the right place if you want.

Places in the USA pay you to get the graduate degree, because "famous 
alumni" are how they sell the school to the paying undergraduate 
schools. If you were doing an undergrad in physics, wouldn't you prefer 
to go to the school where Hawkings got his PhD?  Our schools aren't 
nearly old enough to have reputations on their own without famous people 
associated with them. :-)

It's also an excellent way to meet (a) friends and (b) business 
contacts. You'll be in a mile-square place with thousands of people your 
own age, most pretty smart, most rather more tolerant of differences 
than places with less explicit mixing of cultures going on, etc. You'll 
also be around people whose job it is to travel around the world meeting 
with and talking to people with interesting problems, and whose other 
job it is to talk people into giving them money to solve interesting 
problems they didn't know they had.

It's not about the computers. It's about the people.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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