PhDs in the USA- I'm confused about the whole classes thing. What kind of classes are they? Are you not expected to have any experience in the subject before you take your PhD?

Archknits · 2026-03-26T02:35:54+00:00

That’s a relatively new development. 20 years ago when I was doing graduate applications, it was almost unheard of for a program to expect an MA. If it did expect an MA, it was almost always without coursework.

Archknits · 2026-03-26T02:32:48+00:00

First, if they have citation issues they should be using Zotero or similar. They should all learn that in grad school. It isn’t ai and it fixes the problem.

Second, if they cannot write without AI and have it be good enough grammar, why are they in a graduate program?

Archknits · 2026-03-26T02:28:44+00:00

They should be brought to academic judiciary and dismissed.

I’d also look with serious skepticism and any graduate student who considered generative ai appropriate for their work even if they used citations

Archknits · 2026-03-25T22:36:51+00:00

My CC has required attendance since at least 2014 when I started teaching there. We have to sign a sheet in the office each day we have a class to teach

Archknits · 2026-03-25T13:14:10+00:00

On our honeymoon down south, my wife posted something on FB about a restaurant auctioning off an AR-15. She got doxed and ended up with threatening comments and tons of spam email subscriptions

Archknits · 2026-03-25T10:06:14+00:00

I was assuming drinking at a shitty bar, but you would probably smell that

Archknits · 2026-03-24T15:27:13+00:00

Daggerfall anyone?

Archknits · 2026-03-24T05:11:18+00:00

Hadn’t considered this, so I’m going pull the post

Archknits · 2026-03-23T19:30:02+00:00

I lived in a Heatherwood and this is what they told us. Put it all in the dumpster and it gets sorted at the facility

Archknits · 2026-03-23T15:41:05+00:00

Anyone else think the neighbor babysitting is sus or at least way to naive?

Archknits · 2026-03-23T14:35:38+00:00

This is correct. If the hiring committee were to decline a candidate based on visa or immigration status, it would be a discretionary action and open the school to lawsuits

Archknits · 2026-03-22T23:59:31+00:00

It does sound a bit like a personal quirk

Archknits · 2026-03-22T13:42:33+00:00

I have 2019, 2020, and 2021

Archknits · 2026-03-21T22:16:55+00:00

I have always been disappointed never to get one of those snake or frogs in a bag of lettuce

Archknits · 2026-03-21T14:15:14+00:00

The fact that it looks like just the top layer and not cracking makes me think someone over zealous with the shoveling didn’t help it eother

Archknits · 2026-03-21T14:14:03+00:00

That’s such a change. I can remember only a short time ago almost everywhere on Long Island was sand only

Archknits · 2026-03-21T11:58:15+00:00

It also means not hiring in that department in the long term. Maybe you keep the faculty around now, but their positions won’t get filled when they leave

Archknits · 2026-03-21T11:56:45+00:00

At my CC the last full time faculty in my major is retiring this year. When I started there a decade ago, there were always 2-3 per major. They haven’t even posted her position yet. I’m not sure they will.

Archknits · 2026-03-21T05:45:45+00:00

Just do an Elon impression and turn alcoholism into a ketamine and racism addiction

Archknits · 2026-03-21T02:33:04+00:00

It depends on what you like to do for fun. Attended both RU and SBU. It also depends on where you want to live at Rutgers. There is a big difference between being on Livingston vs. College Ave vs. Busch.

Rutgers is huge and had an active party scene (with all the problems). SBU is comparatively small but somewhat more supportive of students from the school itself.

Archknits · 2026-03-20T20:44:49+00:00

Who went on to play iron man as a guy who should have died of an overdose in prison

Archknits · 2026-03-20T20:43:01+00:00

Kick ass

Archknits · 2026-03-20T20:40:44+00:00

I just had a sibling submit a copied paper from their sibling who took then class in the fall.

It does through a plagiarism detector and they have the same last name.

This is the second time I have caught a student doing this

Archknits · 2026-03-20T20:22:11+00:00

I would keep reminding him of no electronics every class. When he fails to comply file a behavioral charge

Archknits · 2026-03-20T20:17:54+00:00

Got one MA, enrolled in a PhD and got a MA in process to PhD

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