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What does a PhD mean? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

College is what you put into it. A lot of people don't get into the networking side of it because it's never really introduced to them. Mostly professors look for those who are "turned on" to bring onto projects like that, that is, those that are engaged and asking questions and curious.

Youngins, lpt: talk to your professors and let them know you are interested and ask questions. It's what you are there for- access to brains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, not really over here. You do have to do a bunch of hands-on stuff for credits. Can't even replace those with more standard subjects.

You can absolutely wing it past all five years, depending on your degree, but between mandatory projects and internships you have to try really hard to not get some level of expertise in the field.

Plus, university curriculums have specializations here, so you get mandatory courses on pretty narrow subjects whether you like it or not. So... I guess there are some differences, maybe? I was pissed when they announced they'd do that masters' thing here because the price of tuition for that year goes from being a couple hundred to a few thousand for basically the same curriculum, but this is definitely not the first time I notice that the anglosphere assumes there's a huge difference between the two things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The UK system is a bit better about those kinds of things, courses tend to be modular with required internships etc. The American system is a lot different and scheduled like high school, but that may have changed since I was in it. It really was dependent on the course, though. I like the UK setup much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can do a bachelor's in college? Not here. College is typically only two year programs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

College and university are relatively interchangable colloquially in American English. Associate's Degrees are 2 years. Colleges in Europe etc. are different.