I hear that your gas prices are now similar to European prices, which are about 75% tax, so I reckon someone must be making a nice profit.
Yup. Their profits are up in the last year and they are spending less than ever on research, while complaining that the prices are so high because of ailing technology...something just don't jive....
That isn't just in the USA. I'm only doing a PhD because I couldn't get a job!
I didn't know that! What are you studying? :D <--me being unabashedly nosy
I tried to get into a PhD program for clinical psych when I graduated, but besides an ailing job market, funds for higher education had also been cut, and programs couldn't afford to accept as many students as a result. (It costs A LOT to train a psychologist, I learned!) And because students couldn't find jobs, more--like you--were pursuing graduate work, thus flooding the system even further.
My #1 school accepted 10% of applicants the year before I applied, which meant that I would have been easily accepted. The year I graduated, they accepted less than 1%.
Please excuse my ignorance of religious matters, but how on earth would that be possible?
It is now acceptable to many in this country that Christian education be incorporated into public education. I do not care to hear their creation myths, I do not care to pray before classes, and I do not care to have to sit through Bible lessons. Nor do I care to be mocked or looked down upon, should I have the strength to refuse. (Which I would, but I am no longer a child and so it is not an issue.) Nor do I want to encounter Christian propaganda in public spaces. Nor do I want less access to books I want to read and movies I want to watch because they have sex or naked bodies in them, and nature upsets someone's idea of what is "moral." Nor do I want my taxes to finance said institutions while children cannot get the education or healthcare that they need in places of both urban and rural poverty. (And I can't even get a bleeding pay raise to cover the cost of gas! ;D)
Theoretical Physics (chiral carbon nanotubes); it's incredibly dull and I very much doubt I'll actually get the PhD at the end of it, which probably ought to bother me more than it does. You're still pretty much guaranteed funding for postgraduate study in England in physics or chemistry if your first degree is good enough.
Fanatical religious types do get upset about the strangest things. I'd almost forgotten about the creationism debate.
Yup. Their profits are up in the last year and they are spending less than ever on research, while complaining that the prices are so high because of ailing technology...something just don't jive....
That isn't just in the USA. I'm only doing a PhD because I couldn't get a job!
I didn't know that! What are you studying? :D <--me being unabashedly nosy
I tried to get into a PhD program for clinical psych when I graduated, but besides an ailing job market, funds for higher education had also been cut, and programs couldn't afford to accept as many students as a result. (It costs A LOT to train a psychologist, I learned!) And because students couldn't find jobs, more--like you--were pursuing graduate work, thus flooding the system even further.
My #1 school accepted 10% of applicants the year before I applied, which meant that I would have been easily accepted. The year I graduated, they accepted less than 1%.
Please excuse my ignorance of religious matters, but how on earth would that be possible?
It is now acceptable to many in this country that Christian education be incorporated into public education. I do not care to hear their creation myths, I do not care to pray before classes, and I do not care to have to sit through Bible lessons. Nor do I care to be mocked or looked down upon, should I have the strength to refuse. (Which I would, but I am no longer a child and so it is not an issue.) Nor do I want to encounter Christian propaganda in public spaces. Nor do I want less access to books I want to read and movies I want to watch because they have sex or naked bodies in them, and nature upsets someone's idea of what is "moral." Nor do I want my taxes to finance said institutions while children cannot get the education or healthcare that they need in places of both urban and rural poverty. (And I can't even get a bleeding pay raise to cover the cost of gas! ;D)
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Fanatical religious types do get upset about the strangest things. I'd almost forgotten about the creationism debate.
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Sounds impressive! And a bit scary :)
Fanatical religious types do get upset about the strangest things. I'd almost forgotten about the creationism debate.
That debate is still, unfortunately, alive and well over here. And the president has made it abundantly clear which side he's on....
I love it when people of intelligence are elected to preside over world superpowers.
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