Comrades, I’m stuck working on some university bullshit and thus I am bored. So, let’s shoot the shit. I am an Iranian computer engineering graduate student (have a bsc degree in CompSci) and I have noticed that my country Iran is completely… opaque, so to speak, to even leftist of various denominations from the outside. So, let’s talk comrade to comrade. Ask me shit about the daily soulcrushing grind of life in Iran…

  • mkkhan@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    Hey brother. Persian diaspora here. I wanted to ask some questions regarding to pursuing higher education in Iran.

    How much of an impact would you say that the combination of:

    • west sanctions such as AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
    • slow internet speed (I’ve only heard stories of this one that the internet is limited to ADSL2. Is that still the case?)
    • brain drain from the country

    has had on your education. Also, curious what your thesis is on comrade :)

    • sudo_halt@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      1 day ago

      Ah, I have to deal with this shit everyday!

      Living here you will quickly learn how to use VPNs for accessing foreign services. Sanctions and domestic firewall definitely have a large impact. Internet speeds have improved BY LOTS in the recent years to the point of being quite modern. ADSL is mostly for shitty old homes who don’t have anything better than decades old copper lines, in which case I recommend getting a rooftop antenna for so-called “air fiber” service.

      Brain drain is certainly a huge issue, but Iranian public institutions are quite good. We still have the old, experienced generation of professors who teach in public universities. Private ones are a fucking disaster tho (education quality is garbage)