Dialects of Professors

feareman
Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:24:50 +0000

Yes, I forgot that American schools are the only good ones in the world. Why should I learn from someone who graduated from Cambridge, Oxford, the Sorbonne, etc when I could learn from a Devry grad instead? While American schools are great, if you look at a list of internationally ranked schools you’ll find that much of the list is made up of international schools.

I’d rather learn from a nobel laureate with a foreign accent then some random professor any day of the week, but I guess that because English is their second language, they must be ****ing ■■■■■■■■! Who cares about world views! Screw the world, who needs 'em?!?

In terms of TCNJ, clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about. After looking into it, there are no professors in the Engineering department who got their degree from a foreign school and only 2 who have gotten a foreign degree in the math department (one of which is University of London).

Furthermore, the math department has 2 professors with PhDs from Harvard, and Princeton, Yale, Wash U St. Louis are represented (among others). The Engineering Dept. has grads from JHU, Lehigh, UPenn, UVA, Columbia, etc.

Engineering is a tough field, and I would imagine its pretty standard for it to take longer than 4 years at many universities. After all, it is widely considered one of the hardest possible majors. The average time to graduate at colleges now is 5 years, but it is definitely possible to graduate in 4 if you have a plan going into it.

And I’ll make sure to send my degree from 7-11 to Harvard Med, and I’ll let you know how that goes.