Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede. - Gregory Benford

When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.

Professors everywhere deplored examinations as an archaic technique, a fossil that recalled little red schoolhouses and memorizing the capitals of all the states. Regular progress and daily diligence mattered more, they felt, not an hour spent compressing months of learning onto a few sheets of paper. Far better to stress homework, classroom participation and the professor’s judgment. Regrettably, the large size of classes, and the requirements of society itself for pseudo-objective standards kept the exam structure firmly in place.

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.