• Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Unpopular opinion (apparently): I value the overpriced, yet imo absolutely priceless, education I received when I was in college/at a university.

    It’s honestly unbelievable (to me) how much people in the US look down on learning and getting an education

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      6 months ago

      This has nothing to do with education. It’s commentary on the academic job market and how professors expect post docs to work for “exposure.

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        6 months ago

        Ngl, I did not actually expand the picture to see the caption. I just saw the main image about knowledge. Post-docs absolutely get fucked and I do feel bad for them.

        I quit one year into my PhD because I was miserable in grad school. I have to assume most post-docs have some crazy resilience or some kind of mental issue/trauma that keeps them going and going. I guess that’s probably true for most people but post-docs do some seriously hard mental work and basically get shafted the entire time (at least in the US).

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    6 months ago

    My grandma used to tell me that while trying to teach me reading and so on. I miss you babcia 😭