I saw the new Harry Potter movie this past weekend. I thought it was great, although it did leave me with an interesting thought in my head. I walked out of the theater felling sorry for the actors in the movie. I realized as I was walking out, that each and everyone of them has, for the most part, missed out on the joy that has been the Harry Potter series. Having watched the "making of" special that they've been running on A&E, I realized how little of the movie is real. I mean it must ruin any suspension of disbelief for the actors were they to ever watch it. They must be like, "Hey you see that scene there...that was really just me flapping my arms in front of a green screen." Nothing too profound there, it just never dawned on me before.

Anyway, I've been looking into grad school lately, and I was horrified to look at the tuition that schools have the balls to ask for these days. I want to learn as much as the next guy, but the field I want to pursue is not some cash cow in the making like medicine or law. I am into science, and the return on investment that follows a graduate degree in science is often times more related to opening doors to NEW jobs, and not so much opening doors to HIGHER PAYING jobs. That's life I guess.