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Cake day: May 29th, 2022

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  • In as few words as possible: U.S. academia functions as an MLM* scheme where your best career prospect after getting out will be in academia, preparing further students to leave academia only to return, ad infinitum.

    Except for STEM degrees. Then you might be able to get a job for the military industrial complex.

    Almost no one I know who finished university wound up doing the kind of work they studied for. One’s in healthcare. The rest are still doing odd-jobs or wound up back in academia.

    *MLM = multi-level marketing, not Marxist-Leninist-Maoist