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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is so much waste on the college campuses of today particularly those that do research. I live in a Division 1 college town and have friends that work for the university and rarely have to step foot on campus. A lot of my friends frequently travel around the world going to conferences. [/quote]

How is that a waste?[/quote]

Zoom in to a conference.
Read a published paper?[/quote]

It's not the same.  In order to form the kind of relationship where you can co-author something with someone, co-write an article or a book, you need to have an actual relationship with someone.  You're not going to develop that through zooming in to a conference.  you actually need to have 'unstructured interactions'.  you also need to know something about the culture where the conference is taking place.  all of this is necessary even if you are jealous that we get to travel.  So much of this MAGA stuff is at root driven by jealousy -- you're jealous of my academic schedule, my travel, my lifestyle.  Maybe you should have worked hard and gone to grad school and published. [/quote]

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