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Humanities are 95% SJW's/commies, so hatred for Trump is understandable. They are also the most numerous and loudest of faculty by virtue of having time for nonsense, so this is mostly what you hear. Engineering and exact sciences will have a mix of opinions
Liberal arts students argue forever because no one can prove anything, while
arguments between engineering students end quickly when one of them is proven
wrong. "No, that won't compile. Look."
Liberal arts students are pessimistic about getting a job, while engineering
students all happily know they will be employed.
ome of these schools are now talking about creating differentials in the tuitions so that the STEM students will have to subsidize the liberal arts students.
I actually wonder if they are seeing the pay differential between what you need to pay a STEM academic vs non-STEM. I don't know if there are standardized pay scales for public college teachers, but I can see this morphing into an ala-carte system eventually, and non-STEM faculty getting pay cuts.
Jeff Bokor: $220,308.00 + $24,648.00 (Bokor is EECS Department chair. Transparent California show "other pay" at + $74,045.00)
Yes, but one the downfalls with engineers is this. They believe they can model anything and therefore gravitate to the technocrat side of things. I regularly ate lunch in college with a group of 10 engineers. All psycho liberals with very high IQs.
All psycho liberals with very high IQs.
Now and again I gently take on my Trump-hating colleagues. I point out that, however disagreeable his personality, being the first president in 40 years to not engage or escalate a war means an awful lot of people have avoided being killed. And an improved American economy meant better living conditions for those at the bottom of the heap. And then there was Trump’s potentially huge breakthrough in the Middle East peace process
Yes, but one the downfalls with engineers is this. They believe they can model anything and therefore gravitate to the technocrat side of things. I regularly ate lunch in college with a group of 10 engineers. All psycho liberals with very high IQs.
Trump isn’t anti-war... he’s not a pacifist. His Twitter rhetoric and combative nature of defending his ego at all costs proves that. He loves making big threats and has done so numerous times. If North Korea hasn’t backed down that country would be a black hole right now and possibly one major US city would be nuked too if they actually had the capability. He inherited the military might of the US and swung that big military dick around the last 4 years as best he could.
The technocracy movement proposed replacing politicians and businesspeople with scientists and engineers who had the technical expertise to manage the economy.
This sounds so much like the "Scientific Socialism" the Soviets were always going on about.
He’s neither Republican or Democrat he’s a narcissist seeking ego boosting energy. It’s why he will shrivel up and die as soon as he’s out of the spotlight.
don’t understand why you ask for physical evidence of voter fraud, yet spout of pure fairy tales like this.
Trump isn’t anti-war... he’s not a pacifist. His Twitter rhetoric and combative nature of defending his ego at all costs proves that. He loves making big threats and has done so numerous times.
He broke the rules to get a win. It doesn’t matter that he broke the rules. It seemed that he could do what he did, so he got away with it as a valid move. And NK was forced to respond to it.
It's the standard liberal Shockley conceit that 'high IQ' means you can central plan the revolution down to its itsy bitsy street level consequences from an armchair because you are so smurf smart.
I shouldn’t have taken him at his word he would nuke North Korea?
Yeah, but his actions, tweets and threats have now become beyond predictable after 4 long years. He’s not a brilliant mind... and I doubt he knows the names of chess pieces let alone how to play.... but cute analogy.
He's officially the most popular president we've ever had. Do you fucking believe that?
Some of the shitty things about academia
…and maybe it’s no wonder academia was so disappointing on Covid
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From 2018, on some of the reasons I left academia years earlier to secure more intellectual freedom. Takes on new implications after two years of failure from academia.
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Inspired today to list some of the shitty things about academia.
1/ Teaching a course, yet knowing that same course is available online by some super-teacher who does it better.
2/ Tenure, which, rather than incentivizing novel breakthroughs, tends to instead lead to complacency.
3/ “Grant shoppers”, professors who constantly scour proposal announcements and scheme about how they can cram their hammer into any hole. (Mixed metaphor.)
4/ Team grants, where one professor spins a bullshit story about how we dozen professors together will do groundbreaking work. The other eleven are like, “Sure, put my name on, whatever.”
5/ Giant lab fiefdoms, each determined to grow the largest.
6/ The lack of proper faculty lounges that faculty actual go to and socialize, rather than just go for lunches with the job candidate. (University College Cork actually has a proper one.)
7/ Students hope to do a PhD and come up with a heeyuge big new crazy idea. Instead they are plopped into a lab, asked to do professor’s experiment i+1.
8/ The money. The only way to have it truly rise is to leave for another university, or successfully threaten to do so.
9/ Seeing some great engineering minds incentivized to do stupid bullshit with $5 million grants, delivering a dead fish. Their effect in private enterprise could be explosive.
10/ How every professor thinks he’s / she’s the paradigm example of “multidisciplinary”, but nearly all of them are...so...not.
11/ Spending most of one’s energy and time on applying for grants. ...grants that then tie one’s creativity down.
12/ Going to conferences, and seeing the “stars” of the field, and the fawning, and they all really truly believe they are stars. But no one gives a shit outside that room.
13/ At a talk and someone casually jests about how the Republican president is a fascist, as is anyone not sufficiently far left. Everyone giggles. The three libertarians sigh to themselves.
14/ The denouncements and petitions, treating campus as a microcosm of the injustices of the world, or the world they fantasize exists.
15/ The squelching of free speech for anyone not sufficiently far left: stealing conservative newspapers, disrupting talks, forcing professors out.
16/ Professors are always traveling to exotic locations for conferences on their grant’s dime. It’s not because they’re producing anything. It’s a racket, on the government’s dime.
17/ That undergraduates pay absurd tuition for the privilege of having the best professors try their damnedest to stay as far as possible from them.
18/ That graduate students actually believe that there’s a good probability they’ll get a good job.
19/ That the idea of being outside of academia is deemed a horrible failure. (Once outside, the hypnotic appeal dissipates immediately.)
20/ That it’s no place for theorists, yet theorists are needed more than ever. Yardstick of success is largely grants, and grants are almost exclusively experiments.
21/ Seeing entire careers determined by virtue of the research of his/her mentor in grad school he / she happened into. First grant easier if on same topic. Second grant easier if on that too. Etc for 40 years.
22/ How whole swaths of biology and neuroscience professors believe in evolution, but for all practical purposes don’t, because they believe that to actually hypothesize about it amounts to “just so” stories.
23/ And how in the behavioral sciences, if you use evolution to explain anything, you are either deeply confused or fascist, or both.
Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes.
richwicks saysHe's officially the most popular president we've ever had. Do you fucking believe that?
Yes, because Trump is the most disliked president in history for the far left and moderates just think he’s an asshat clown that should go away. You can’t deny hate for Trump is off the charts for close to 50% of the population.
Of course, who knows if she can shoehorn her degree into a real job somewhere.
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