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You have to be crazy (e.g. addicted to the process of a research career) or clueless to start a PhD unless it figures your path to citizenship, so yeah most ame
by xkcd-sucks 9y ago
You have to be crazy (e.g. addicted to the process of a research career) or clueless to start a PhD unless it figures your path to citizenship, so yeah most american PhD students are probably not the best and brightest assuming the talented crazies are a minority.
- hyperbovine 9y agoAh, the old HN trash-PhDs-and-academia meme. It’s been... minutes since I last encountered this.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoEh. Also, Chinese are in it for the green card and Americans are in it because they just love the subject. What other gross generalizations can we come up with?
- grad_ml 9y agoWelcome to Ycombinator! The land of free. PS: If you guys keep downvoting me, I guess I'll be next president of the land of free! Ha ha.
- dang 9y agoWould you please not post snarky and/or unsubstantive comments here? Especially on divisive topics, where it reliably sparks flamewars. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html