Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
by benmaraschino on Sunday September 08, 2019 @04:29PM
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No way. It's not even close. And I say this as a PhD candidate in one of these fields at Stanford. Grad school is what you make of it, to a large extent. There's definitely toxicity, but it's not as systematic or ritualized to the extent that it is in medicine. In grad school, you have wide leeway over who you work with, and you can distance yourself from the toxic personalities if that's what you want to do without taking a career hit. That's not really possible in medicine.
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Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
by selimthegrim on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:49PM
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At a top tier university, sure. Try a department with 20% faculty turnover where all the junior faculty leave before the third year review as soon as they get their NSF CAREER award and you don’t know if you’re getting paid in the summers.
Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
by paggle on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:45PM
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Yeah, med school is the only “brainy” career path that endures military-style hazing on a ritualized and widespread basis.
Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
by stephencanon on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:59PM
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To be precise: med school is (comparatively) a walk in the park. Years 3 and 4 of med school are a sort of "residency lite" where you rotate in different specialties, but the doctors don't really expect you to be useful, so it's fairly low-pressure other than odd hours. Study up so you can know what you're talking about, don't get in people's way, and you'll be fine. Residency is when the 80+hrs/week institutional hazing happens.