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What would you prefer?
by pjscott 15y ago
What would you prefer?
- nobody314159 15y agoNew science, engineering, medical graduates who have just finished a US degree/masters/PhD?
- mbreese 15y agoI'm pretty sure that they can (or will) buy a house... Maybe not on the coasts, but as a grad student, I could buy a house in Indiana.
- pjscott 15y agoThe proposed law specifies that the house must cost at least $500,000. This is way outside the price range of most grad students, unfortunately.
- sliverstorm 15y agoWell, not the ones planning to go home. But perhaps a more welcoming route to becoming a citizen would help keep some of the ones leaving upon completing their degree.
- hugh3 15y agoThe only thing that bothers me about this proposal is that it might attract too many people doing PhDs for the wrong reason. And people doing PhDs for the wrong reason usually wind up doing bad research.
- msg 15y agopeople doing PhDs usually wind up doing bad research FTFY Seriously though, limiting it to STEM majors would goose academia in the right direction.
- impendia 15y ago> Seriously though, limiting it to STEM majors would goose academia in the right direction. What is this supposed to mean?! If you don't know, humanities programs are being badly squeezed already. Some programs are being cut entirely. I have a friend who is earning her Ph.D. in comp lit, and she (with all of her colleagues) are seriously scared that her field will no longer exist in 20 years. And all this, despite the fact that undergraduate courses in the humanities are, according to my friend, as popular as ever.
- nobody314159 15y agoMany jobs require a degree. Those jobs that only require you to wear a suit don't care what the degree is in. Now if your future job only depends on your grade - not the subject which would you choose? Studying maths/physics/etc for 4years or doing psychology/media studies/american studies.
- impendia 15y agoI don't know anybody that took nothing other than math classes for four years of undergrad... and I majored in math, and subsequently went to grad school in it.
- hugh3 15y agoI took only maths and physics classes for my final three years of undergrad. In first year, I also took chemistry and computer science. No, I didn't go to uni in the US.
- potatolicious 15y agoDon't be so surprised - it seems that haughty dismissal of all things non-technical is a trademark of geeky communities. See: reddit, slashdot, etc.
- hugh3 15y ago
- pjscott 15y agoI agree with you adamantly, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
- 9999 15y agoI would certainly prefer this.