Avoid AREC for PhD
Avoid Maryland AREC for PhD
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Do yourself a favor.
Do your research.
If you want to talk to current students and visit their campus , fine. But bear
in mind current students usually know better than to openly criticize a department that holds their paychecks in one hand and recommendation letters in the other.Talk to those who failed out or dropped out to see what really happened and if they were mistreated. Some tend to be unnecessarily bitter, so focus on basic facts.
Contact alumni on their placement list. They are more likely to be candid now that conflicts of interest are gone. But if the person is a " I suffered, so should you" type, then good luck.
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Ting Bai(https://are.ucdavis.edu/people/grad-students/phd/ting-bai/), who was admitted and left the first day of math camp, is now a graduate student at UC Davis.
She told the department she left because she felt unsafe due to the racial breakdown of college park.
Presumably she knows both Maryland AREC and UC Davis. She can be a valuable source of information for prospective students.
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Honestly, none of the so-called issues mentioned here about L-berg seem that bad compared to what I would say are the typical experiences of a graduate student in any department. I fail to see how he is abusive or vindictive or anything of the like. If anything, his students seem a bit soft and need to toughen up to survive what is just a brutal experience of getting a PhD and then finding a job.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, kiddos.
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Honestly, none of the so-called issues mentioned here about L-berg seem that bad compared to what I would say are the typical experiences of a graduate student in any department. I fail to see how he is abusive or vindictive or anything of the like. If anything, his students seem a bit soft and need to toughen up to survive what is just a brutal experience of getting a PhD and then finding a job.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, kiddos.Right,
A phd and a job, what a holy grail.
U should stroke Lichtenberg's ego to satisfaction so he doesn't try to destroy what he thinks u must value as a "future" in a p-hacking dying field.
Lichtenberg, in his insatiable thirst for ego trip ,is the one who diminishes the value of a phd from umd arec.Sir, it seems that you are no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one. Just on a brief inventory, I'd say that you could use yourself a shave and a brighter disposition.
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Its worse because you had a bad experience and are such a delicate little flower that the entire world needs to be reminded about it? Sack up, Sally.
If you had any real cojones, you would openly post your name.Oh,just because you are spoiled out of bad experience, you get to speak for the world, sally.
Su.ck it up. Get used to it. Post your name given by your p.ut.a ma.d.re.
Lichtenberg's words are perfect for you, "you are irrelevant"
Seriously, be reminded. Feel my pain,
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Reminder.
Op's initial post was deleted.
These people are such delicate flowers.
Let's repeat what OP said:That department forces you to take classes from professors nobody wants to work with. Lichtenberg, Olson and Holzer all teach required classes. But students cannot get classes from professors they actually want to work with: Leonard, William's Shin. Their graduate classes are not offered every year.
The program is operated for the benefits of deadwoods at the costs of students.
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Reminder.
Op's initial post was deleted.
These people are such delicate flowers.
Let's repeat what OP said:That department forces you to take classes from professors nobody wants to work with. Lichtenberg, Olson and Holzer all teach required classes. But students cannot get classes from professors they actually want to work with: Leonard, William's Shin. Their graduate classes are not offered every year.
The program is operated for the benefits of deadwoods at the costs of students.
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Reminder.
Op's initial post was deleted.
These people are such delicate flowers.
Let's repeat what OP said:That department forces you to take classes from professors nobody wants to work with. Lichtenberg, Olson and Holzer all teach required classes. But students cannot get classes from professors they actually want to work with: Leonard, William's Shin. Their graduate classes are not offered every year.
The program is operated for the benefits of deadwoods at the costs of students.
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Reminder.
Op's initial post was deleted.
These people are such delicate flowers.
Let's repeat what OP said:That department forces you to take classes from professors nobody wants to work with. Lichtenberg, Olson and Holzer all teach required classes. But students cannot get classes from professors they actually want to work with: Leonard, William's Shin. Their graduate classes are not offered every year.
The program is operated for the benefits of deadwoods at the costs of students
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