Feynman once had a problem like this and patiently argued with the teacher like an equal but ultimately gave up and just had to go “look I’m Richard Feynman”
This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.
This is so obnoxious and really just indicates how ignorant this poster is about how anything works. This is a PhD student. Not the secretary from The Devil Wears Prada.
I used to work in Fischer Black’s old group at Goldman Sachs; his colleague Bob Litterman was the chairman of the group then. There was one episode where Fischer was confused about some options’ market price and realized people were misusing B-S and cleaned everyone out.
No, there isn’t. This person just does not exist. You can get into college if you want, period. You could also take a random IIT Bombay admit that couldn’t get an H1B and they would absolutely decimate the kind of American kid you’re talking about, on both merit and work ethic.
There's a 20 year old American kid working at Dunkin' Donuts high everyday who is smarter than every South Asian admitted to the country in the last four years who was blocked out of college in the name of diversity.
Just drop out. Dropping out of a PhD is not like dropping out of high school. You don’t have to finish it and in fact should not if it’s not working for you. Nobody cares. It’s hard and not for everyone.
I think I will conclude that I regret starting a PhD.
Doing research was a hobby and it was unwise to turn it into a career. It's a deeply personal endeavor that should be done for its own sake.
The hobby is gone, and also my pace of career progression. Lose-lose situation.
This site has become kind of hard to use. I basically stay on it because academics and math people haven’t left, and that conversation is civilized and ok, but you step one toe outside that and it’s just deranged racist morons and trash ads everywhere. When are we going to move?