Word: crapshooter
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Across the board, advising is a crapshoot. Some lucky souls land the jackpot, scoring a full professor with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration (calling it a "major" is just too plebian...
...free is the shortest race and it's always a crapshoot," Drake said. "You just dive in and somebody gets lucky. I never saw the guy from Brown and I didn't realize I had won until I hit the wall...