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To: dilpo
No offense, but there are a lot of reasons why a dedicated research professor will always take an Asian student over an American. The main one being that the Asian will have ZERO social life; the professor knows that the Asian will be in the lab (or working out the details of the profs latest conjecture) 12-15 hours a day...7 days a week.

American education is so devalued that many professors won't take a chance on a native-born.

55 posted on 07/28/2003 9:23:05 AM PDT by eniapmot
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To: eniapmot; dilpo
No offense, but there are a lot of reasons why a dedicated research professor will always take an Asian student over an American. The main one being that the Asian will have ZERO social life; the professor knows that the Asian will be in the lab (or working out the details of the profs latest conjecture) 12-15 hours a day...7 days a week.

That's right. When I was in grad school (a few years ago) the Chinese students were there at all hours of the day and night. Very hard workers, but I did wonder just how much independence they had - study groups were very big for them.

60 posted on 07/28/2003 9:40:46 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: eniapmot
"The main one being that the Asian will have ZERO social life"

And if he kills himself, you can always get another one.
65 posted on 07/28/2003 10:03:14 AM PDT by Tauzero (This was not the sand-people, this was the work of Imperial Storm Troopers: only they are so precise)
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