I don't think he was "broken" so severely that he couldn't function. But there were definitely some cracks in his psyche. Made for a slightly confusing course

I don't think he was "broken" so severely that he couldn't function. But there were definitely some cracks in his psyche. Made for a slightly confusing course. As I recall he still finished his post-graduate research, and is presumably and hopefully now a productive member of society. (Though there are many of my fellow alumni from that timeframe that aren't working in anything related to our fields, having the benefit of graduating during the dot-bomb fallout and the Enron/AA mess. Our "career fairs" that year were... entertainingly silent, to say the least.)