`The sad truth is $500k for a career grant seems like a lot when you're in the university, but when you get out and see where else money is being spent you real

`The sad truth is $500k for a career grant seems like a lot when you're in the university, but when you get out and see where else money is being spent you realize how poor academia really is.` This hits me every now and again. But your first point is huge, and one thing we've been working on with our program's grant writing class. Students phone in their specific aims pages to go write their approach sections, which is what they're working on, and that's a huge mistake.