\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Foreign Students Fill Science Ranks at Universities in United States Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Foreign Students Fill Science Ranks at Universities in United States No ****. And it's not just because American students don't want to. When I was in grad school, I had a hard time getting a thesis adviser to work with me, because a lot of professors would only work with foreign students. The reason being simple: I could say "no." If a foreign student talks back, the professor's response is "Do it, or lose your student visa." Tenured professors like slave labor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 No ****. And it's not just because American students don't want to. When I was in grad school, I had a hard time getting a thesis adviser to work with me, because a lot of professors would only work with foreign students. The reason being simple: I could say "no." If a foreign student talks back, the professor's response is "Do it, or lose your student visa." Tenured professors like slave labor. perhaps they didn't see the potential. inquiring and receptive mind and all.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 perhaps they didn't see the potential. inquiring and receptive mind and all.... Yes, because when arguing with morons on the internet, I should be open and receptive to their idiocy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdog1960 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Yes, because when arguing with morons on the internet, I should be open and receptive to their idiocy... just the kind of response an academic scientist looks for in a protege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 This, all of this. People with PhD's in biology or chemistry that don't break into academia largely end up in postdoc land for years and years, because there is no real career track for that sort of thing. People go on and on about STEM, and it's a nice acronym and all, but it's really more like TE when it comes to having decent (as far as quality of life) career prospects. Back in the early 1990's my wife had the dilemma w/what to do with her masters in English... LoL... Go on to get her PhD? What does she do then? Clogged academia? She decided to go back to the library (worked there through the years starting up @ the BECPL as a teenager in the 1980s) to get her masters in library & information science (University of Illinois). She has been the director of various local public libraries for over 13 years now.... LoL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Back in the early 1990's my wife had the dilemma w/what to do with her masters in English... LoL... Go on to get her PhD? What does she do then? Clogged academia? She decided to go back to the library (worked there through the years starting up @ the BECPL as a teenager in the 1980s) to get her masters in library & information science (University of Illinois). She has been the director of various local public libraries for over 13 years now.... LoL Does she know Noah Wyle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Does she know Noah Wyle? You win the obscure reference award for the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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