There is a right and wrong answer to the question. It is completely fair for a senator to actually have an answer to the question we he assumes his position, rather than being a blank slate.

The funny this is that being a "villain" means that you don't act "within the acceptable norms."

Though Meyer claimed he was being a "hero," he was actually adopting a "villain" persona, and the other players had to act outside the confines of the game to get back at him.

What's a current CS student to do? Go to med school or study patent law.

Alternately: get a job where you bring in money. One of the sorts of jobs I was looking for after I finished my PhD was contract research-- where I would try to bring in money to fulfill the contract. At every point, I would be able to say I generated $X of revenue in exchange for a smaller fraction, $Y, in salary.

The problem with IT and support programming is that it is a cost-center, not a revenue-generator. You'll always be looked upon as a resource that is costing the company money that could be saved if they paid you less or got rid of you. It's a little better if the work you're doing is part of the core mission of the company (eg, a programmer working for a software company as opposed to an internal-software developer at an insurance company), but the key to job security is always having some quantitative method of demonstrating that you make more money for the company than you cost every year.