> Guy was going to continue wasting-away by going to a mediocre foreign grad school Wow. Who knows what amazing stuff that guy could have done if he'd escaped

> Guy was going to continue wasting-away by going to a mediocre foreign grad school Wow. Who knows what amazing stuff that guy could have done if he'd escaped to a new place, with new people, in an exciting new culture, rather than the very close-minded one you describe here!