Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on college campuses?

Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by aphyr on Friday January 28, 2011 @01:15AM (#2150997)

When would I have had time for significant manual labor in college? Ask a grad student working 72 hours a week in the lab to grow their own food instead of snarfing down ramen at their desk, and see how much research gets done. :/

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by jrmg on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:54AM (#2151763)

Part of his proposal is that people would never be forced to leave. I suspect that many grad students would trade a year or two longer researching at a more relaxed pace, combined with some less intellectually intense manual labor, for how things work now.

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by aphyr on Friday January 28, 2011 @02:35PM (#2153186)

Ah yes. Five to eight years of phd and another three of postdoc was just getting me to the nonexistent job market for scientists too darn fast. ;-)

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