Erik: What did Stony Brook Professor Milt
Lodge say to you upon graduating college,
and why was it the most pressing conversation
of your life?
Ken: Oh yeah, so I had this professor Milt
Lodge, who was a political science professor
and I was TAing for him in his Statistics
class. One day Milt pulled me aside and said
“So, what do you think you’re going to
do next year?” And I said, “Oh, I don’t
know. I’ll probably tour with some more
rock bands again for little while and while
I’m doing that. I’ll probably apply to
law school. He said, “You know what? Sounds
like you really don’t… you really don’t
have too much going on. Why don’t you just
come to grad school here for a couple of years.
Maybe enter the Ph.D. program in political
science.” And I said, “Well, I really
don’t want to be a political science PhD.”
He goes, “It’s alright. It’ll be good
for you.” He said, “If nothing else, you’ll
get a lot of statistics, lots of quantitative
methods and that will be helpful for you in
the future.” And as it turns out he was
dead right.
