We had our reception for our new students yesterday. Time to show them they are special and important to us. Also a time to hit on them to work in your lab. The problem now is paying for the student. I appreciate that they have to be paid a living wage but when this is coming out of a grants budget it is hard to do the math between paying for a grad student who may take 3 or more years to get publications or a postdoc who may not be as talented and cost 50% more but who can be expected to turn out publications faster.