Foreign students in US universities

[jon-nyc]

Another relevant stat is a quarter of all billion dollars startups were founded by foreigners who first came here on a student visa.

[Axtremus]

Heck, Elon first came over here with a student visa.

[Doctor Phibes]

We hire quite a few folk from Harvard, MIT and even the lowly Northeastern - when I say 'We' I don't actually mean me, I mean the research department that do stuff I don't understand. Pretty much everybody has a funny accent other than the funny American one you might expect.

[jon-nyc]

Thank god you went to school in your shithole country otherwise you’d be an effective rebuttal to the stats I provided above.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Foreign students in US universities:

Thank god you went to school in your shithole country otherwise you’d be an effective rebuttal to the stats I provided above.

We just had a senior research fellow retire. He's Italian, has a PhD in Physics from Harvard, and worked for the company for 50 years, if you can believe it. Hopefully he won't now get deported.

[LuFins Dad]

Huge swaths of Americans believe men can have babies and women can have balls. I’m pretty sure science is no longer really a thing in our K-12 schools… It’s no wonder we have to import our scientists.

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in Foreign students in US universities:

I’m pretty sure science is no longer really a thing in our K-12 schools…

You really ought to consider moving to a different school district.

[Tom-K]

New School! Pretty under the radar commie.

https://www.newschool.edu/academics/graduate/

[jon-nyc]

I literally enrolled as a grad student at the New School for a masters in international relations. My mentor was Nina Khrushcheva, the great granddaughter (she said granddaughter, which is sorta defensable) of Nikita Krushchev. But yes, I had to read Marcuse and Derrida.

[jon-nyc]

I didn’t finish because I got an offer from Credit Suisse which I couldn’t refuse.