MolaKule
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I find her comments portray the reality of current academia.
I find her comments portray the reality of current academia.
My experience is that with a good Physics foundation, you can work for just about any scientific or technically-oriented company, be it in research or engineering.I've got a 14 YO kid that would fit in the physicist realm pretty well, he has all the skills. Problem is, he will not make any money unless he goes to work for a defense contractor,
Lots of attention seeking now that everyone can be an influencer. This applies to all fields.Yep. My wife is a professor and oh the stories I've had to listen to.
"The Academy" is a rolling three ring circus, filled with hopped up babblers with delusions of grandeur who all want to be the next Madame Curie, Sigmond Freud, or Antonio Gramsci. My wife excluded, of course.
I don't know this person...but...ummm, the size of the hands would seem to indicate you know something.That's a brilliant and intrepid lady. She could have been an important scientist but a bit ahead of her time. Today her ticket to success and fame would be just claim to be a male. The scientific world would have been her physics oyster.
Her research interests are Quantum Gravitation so she is no dummy.I watched this a few days ago. Sobering to see how the pursuit of new scientific discovery has become so corrupted.
I hope Sabine finds her YouTube career satisfying, I certainly enjoy her channel.
Her research interests are Quantum Gravitation so she is no dummy.
I find her comments portray the reality of current academia.
That would explain quite a bit. Wife and I were discussing it this morning (spurred by the other thread) and we couldn't figure out how it could rise so much. But if there really was that much more faculty...There was a recent article published by a professor of a private university. I didn't recognize the University but he mentioned that when he started teaching 30ish years ago there was a roughly one student per faculty member but is now one student per four faculty members causing tuition to skyrocket.
I had Prof Heisenberg the son of the famous one for physics. I got 50-60s on his exams blowing the class average of 28 . I got a nice A and also weeded out all the wanna be engineers.I had a mean physics professor in college, I was all honors and all AP and blah blah blah blah blah in high school.
The guy was just plain mean and sure we had lots of top students like the types from Bronx Science etc.
I would get like a 28% on an exam, thinking I knew my stuff, and it's good for a C.
Thought of him the other day telling a story to a buddy, so I looked him up on rate my professor. Really bad reviews, what I said above. Lectures go way off course talking about things that have nothing to do with the subject and exams. What I learned is what he did yes, separated the men from the boys. Maybe I'm a boy wanting to be a man.
Elitism does have its place, but it never rubbed me the right way I guess.