I’m kind of at a loss regarding this. The odd thing is that Marquette did offer me entry into the program, but I turned them down—the economy was turning bad and I couldn’t see myself taking that kind of debt on when it would so greatly interfere with my other goal of financial independence at a time when money, jobs, and credit was all getting tighter. So that was about a year ago, and I’ve spent the last year trying to figure out what I want to do instead, in a way that will let me get that PhD without having to quit working. Oy.