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That kind of thinking is such self-defeating misery. If you have something to contribute, it doesn't matter where you go. You go to the University of Nowhere In
by YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
That kind of thinking is such self-defeating misery. If you have something to contribute, it doesn't matter where you go. You go to the University of Nowhere In Particular and make it a center of the new hot subject in research. If you can't do that, then it doesn't matter if you go to MIT or TIM or whatever, because that's just a way to earn renown from the work of others, rather than your own.
- lostdog 3y agoMost people become closer to the average of their colleagues. Very very few people are so strong by themselves that they can raise the level of a place just by being there individually.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Very very few people are so strong by themselves that they can raise the level of a place just by being there individually. If you are not at least a person who might have this property, you likely aren't PhD material.
- Ar-Curunir 3y agoEverybody at the target institution also has a PhD; that’s the minimum bar to cross.