<p>Lake Jr. has had the good fortune to have been exposed to teachers (and classmates, for that matter) who immigrated to the US from abroad. Accents seem to have never been a problem for him. When he began his engineering studies I went online out of curiousity to check the Ratemyprofessor.com report on a couple of his teachers. One Physics prof from a former Soviet republic got slammed by students for his accent (although he was appreciated for being a nice guy). Lake Jr. took his class, liked the guy a lot and did very well. The lesson is that students have to grab their own bull by the horns, to use a cliche.</p>
<p>Undergraduate students have to understand that from time to time they will run into teachers whom they do not like, but the goal is to nevertheless learn the material, try your best and do well. Also, it’s just a fact of life for U.S. STEM students these days is that many young faculty whom are teaching them are relatively recent immigrants to the U.S. They are the ones whom are flooding US graduate schools in STEM fields. It’s a new world baby, and it’s one world.</p>