Tag: graduate school
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Needless suffering / call a Mexican
I recently heard a story that reminded me of how much graduate students can suffer. Some graduate students out there suffer enormously and needlessly because of unprofessional and untrained mentors. To be fair, scientists in academia wear lots of hats. They typically have to do all these things: Unfortunately, faculty tend not to have any…
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On prestige of universities vs. graduate programs
I wanted to clarify something based on a comment by a supporter on the discrimination post. I think this clarification is useful because from my own experience, the general public doesn’t know that the prestige of a university has virtually nothing to do with the prestige of any given graduate program at that university. The…