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Re:In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a h... by aspaceman on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:25PM (#22362255)
This is emphatically not true and shows a major misunderstanding of graduate funding.

If you want to have a PhD you need funding. To get funding you need to work.

Then you get to research in your free time.

Source: I’m a PhD student.

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Re:In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a h... by chrisseaton on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @09:18PM (#22362540)
Some funding requires you to work, some doesn’t.
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Re:In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a h... by aspaceman on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:44AM (#22363325)
And the funding that doesn't require you to work is increasingly offered less.
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