In Chapter 3 of 12, interviewee Ken Rona reflects on the most prescient guidance he has received to date. Upon graduating Stony Brook University, Rona's political science teacher Milt Lodge convinces him to stay for graduate political science coursework. Rona, Lodge's statistics class teacher's assistant, finds the guidance invaluable, as he hones his interests in underlying quantitative methods and statistics classes comprising the master's curriculum.