[ksbms]

(06-02-2018 02:49 AM)churros Wrote:  

In the United States, being a graduate student has considerable stigma attached to it:

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Partially this damage is self-inflicted, becase US grad students are the most disgustingly self-pitying, whining demographic I've ever encountered. They even take pleasure in their own degradation, as the phenomenon of PhD Comics has proven.

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So what do you do? Accept you are basically the Indian race troll on campus. Have a life that defines you beyond your grad student activities. Stop associating wtih grad students and run daygame. Study at the public libraries, at other universities.

If it weren't for these miserable graduate students, you wouldn't have GPS that has myriad benefits to economy, neither the Google search engine that allows you to find all the things you look for on the internet and, well, the internet itself was, too, a matter of university research.

Let's not forget about the seminal work of Turing and his Universal Turing Machine thanks to which, well, we have smartphones, computers and all possible kind of devices that can perform arithmetic calculations with a very fast speed such as allowing you to peruse this forum.

And also LCD screens, lithium-ion batteries, lasers, radios, electron microscopes, telescopes, rocket fuel, solar power, nuclear power, graphene, insulin, antibiotics, blood transfusion, heart surgery, gene therapy, ultrasound, MRI scanner, PET scanner, X-ray, and so on, and so on.

Frankly, your post is so ignorant, I wonder how you've made your way past primary school?

[pargan]

(06-11-2018 05:48 PM)ksbms Wrote:  

(06-02-2018 02:49 AM)churros Wrote:  

In the United States, being a graduate student has considerable stigma attached to it:

[...]

Partially this damage is self-inflicted, becase US grad students are the most disgustingly self-pitying, whining demographic I've ever encountered. They even take pleasure in their own degradation, as the phenomenon of PhD Comics has proven.

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So what do you do? Accept you are basically the Indian race troll on campus. Have a life that defines you beyond your grad student activities. Stop associating wtih grad students and run daygame. Study at the public libraries, at other universities.

If it weren't for these miserable graduate students, you wouldn't have GPS that has myriad benefits to economy, neither the Google search engine that allows you to find all the things you look for on the internet and, well, the internet itself was, too, a matter of university research.

Let's not forget about the seminal work of Turing and his Universal Turing Machine thanks to which, well, we have smartphones, computers and all possible kind of devices that can perform arithmetic calculations with a very fast speed such as allowing you to peruse this forum.

And also LCD screens, lithium-ion batteries, lasers, radios, electron microscopes, telescopes, rocket fuel, solar power, nuclear power, graphene, insulin, antibiotics, blood transfusion, heart surgery, gene therapy, ultrasound, MRI scanner, PET scanner, X-ray, and so on, and so on.

Frankly, your post is so ignorant, I wonder how you've made your way past primary school?

I've always thought it was insane the contribution university researchers/grad students make to society and often getting little/no compensation relative to their discoveries. In my opinion their main problem is that they are complete pushovers. You can be as whiny, self pitying etc. as churros stated and that still is not the end of the world but the second you are a pushover and do work for basically nothing that's the point in time were you are basically screwed.

All these "super genius" CEOs like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are mostly memes, these guys got to the top not because they were smart but because they weren't pushovers and actually were the aggressors that screwed over others and gained an upper hand. Often the real geniuses will be working for these companies while making breakthroughs and being paid nowhere near what the CEO and executive business assholes are making. I'm not saying the CEOs aren't smart and I'm not saying all these really smart engineers deserve everything, my point is basically you can't just be smart you need to also have some aggressive attributes to succeed in the business world.