03-25-2019, 09:47 AM
Yup, I found out the universities actually had quotas for American graduate students. Otherwise they would have been overrun with Chinese, even in the 1970s. We had some pretty dumb American students as a result, but they could speak English. The Chinese and Indians would could not communicate were given lab prep TA jobs.
I had students tell me they were just glad I could speak English as their last TA couldn't.
We had mostly Indians back in the day. Many of them could speak English pretty decently, but some could not. We had one kid in our group who was DUMB AS A ROCK. He claimed he was trying to get into med school by getting his PhD.
He was dumb and lazy, and he did get his PhD and got a nice job at some company and ended up as a VP I later learned. I can relate to how that happens.
I had students tell me they were just glad I could speak English as their last TA couldn't.
We had mostly Indians back in the day. Many of them could speak English pretty decently, but some could not. We had one kid in our group who was DUMB AS A ROCK. He claimed he was trying to get into med school by getting his PhD.
He was dumb and lazy, and he did get his PhD and got a nice job at some company and ended up as a VP I later learned. I can relate to how that happens.