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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The US University experience

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Excuse me. They have a women. This is clearly a DEI group of fascist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Hey ya know, just how it be sometimes

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Estonian here, first Yank* scientist on Lemmy to come work at University of Tartu gets a beer on me. Note that when I say "come work at" I mean I live in the city, not that I work at the university too. I dropped out after a semester and a half lol

* Yank refers to the entire USA here, though younger generations don't use it much. You could be from Texas or California and still be a Yankee.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Same in Finland: a Californian or a Hawaiian is a Yankee (in Finnish: jenkki) here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I love Tartu, but last I heard, the pay and funding sucked. How is it now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Apparently it's only good if you get good grants and scheme around with the money.

According to this professors and above make pretty good money for Tartu cost of living, assuming you're not trying to support an entire family on a single salary.

Really, it's a place you could move to for the vibes, but it won't be the best place to make money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I’m in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I have a friend here in the US who is on a visa and is planning on leaving the US after undergrad and doing grad school in Europe somewhere

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Emotional, fucking, damage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why would Americans feel emotional damage from this? They have freedom to be Christian, and self reliant, and proud.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (10 children)

This is amazing for us in Europe, bring all the educated ones and leave the Trumpers there

Fully onboard with this, welcome to Spain amigo.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Loadsa Yanks in Edinburgh

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This feels sad on the surface, as an American who went to college 25 years ago and is used to seeing people from around the world move here to learn, teach, start businesses, etc.

But giving it any real thought, damn it, it is much better for humanity this way. Climate change isn’t going to pause while the world watches us collapse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

our 4-year university, actually state is actually suffering from low-enrollment issues, its getting so serious as of recently they have slash faculty and "less important classes": and the faculties getting canned said it was "birth rates", i was commenting on the sub, said it was HCOL, and low job prospects.

many state Uni in our area also have big problems too. its likely stemmed from covid, where everyone had a shitty education from classes being online only, cant really learn anything if you cant ask in person questions. although i think covid just unmasked systemic issues going before the pandemic. ive seen disasstisfied reviews on yelp going back 2016. i was curious after graduation if any universities had yelp reviews they all did.

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