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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US University experience

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

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[–] [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] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 2 days 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] 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Come to Germany! We do everything like the US, but with a 4 year delay and 10% less intense! Relive your memories of when your homeland went down the drain!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (13 children)

My daughter is about 2 years from graduating high school, and even before Trump came into office I was urging her to consider non-US colleges. Mostly because she wants to go into medicine and our healthcare system has been broken for much longer than I can remember. But also the rise of Fox News (and others) getting away with stating provable lies as fact, Joe Rogan, et al. showed that there has been an inflection point and the country is being led around by the dumbest of us.

She's fluent in Spanish, though jumping straight into a medical program would introduce a lot of new specialized words, and might be to much. We're starting to look into options though.

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

Healthcare in the US is terrible, but part of that is how much providers can charge. Healthcare providers aren’t able to charge as much in communities where it’s considered a basic human right. If she practices outside the US her earnings will probably not be as high - and thats even considering the insurance healthcare providers need to carry to account for lawsuits.

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

The biggest problem in the US is how the insurance companies insert themselves between the doctor and patient, and tell you what services you're allowed to receive without even being in the room for the diagnosis.

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