Anonymous wrote:My kid did get a NRIEP placement, which is the college SEAP program. It’s lab dependent on when the offer goes out.

The timing might be more than lab-specific. I have been on the hiring side of this in this past, but not now.

When I was on the hiring side, HR had a pool of resumes, sorted by the stated/planned major, and would announce that the pool was available to view at the HR office. Each PI could choose to go up and look through the pool to see if any candidates seemed applicable to their project - over maybe a 2 month timefrane. If a PI found someone suitable, they would tell HR and then HR would then make an offer to the student.



Tip for future applicants: It is very important to have a section of the resume which lists specific skills, usually programming languages, operating systems, and applications, that one has experience with. Many PIs are looking for someone who actually will contribute to their project, but obviously this varies from person to person. Usually, the PIs do not expect a summer hire to bring big ideas, so they are looking for someone with (a) interests in their field and (b) who has at least some useful skills for their project.

A student who brings knowledge, skills, is cooperative, and is diligent often will get a job offer at graduation. There are a bunch of different programs whereby the government will reimburse employees pursuing advanced degrees in their field. The government often also has the option to help pay down student loans as part of a new grad hiring package.

That list might include things such as: ArcGIS, ARM assembly, C programming, C++ programming, Debuggers (gdb, lldb), Fortran, MacOS, Mathematica, Matlab, MS-Visio, Python 3, R, Unix (Linux) including shell programming, and Xcode. (One also should list SPSS and SAS, but R is gradually displacing both of those because R is both capable and no-cost.). One also ought to list networking skills such as understanding of NetConf, SNMP, TCP/IP, and Wireshark.

Without scientific innovation, the USA has nothing to offer the world and standard of living here will dwindle for most people.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't Biden have a hand on this? He campaigned for the 2020 election on being a transition president to make sure the 2016 election won't ever be repeated again. But then his ego got on the best of him ...

Yes. This is one of the better discussions I've seen recently - Jon Stewart and Chris Christie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQwJuayXJ18

They discussed that the country is craving competence and obviously debated DEI from different perspectives.

One of the hopeful points they raised is that they believe that leadership will shift to the states and that governors are likely going to be on point to help stabilize the country. I've watched parts of the Hill hearings this week and so many of our leaders were performative, ill-informed, and underprepared. These are people who knew what was coming and had abundant support staff. For Dems, there was little (any?) strategy or coordination, which is ridiculous. And some of the Republican questions were just laughable.

I've been reflecting about DEI a lot, and I think our country is in trouble mainly about the "E". We have so many threads on here fighting about what is "fair" to whatever group, how to create an even playing field. While I think it's appropriate to strive to equal the playing field as much, it is nearly impossible to achieve alignment on equity. For this group, how can one take out the advantage of a wealthy family in a child's educational path? Wealth can affect ALL elements of the college application process - grades, tests, essays, etc. I think the answer is to focus instead more on the "I" - promoting people to be the most authentic versions of themselves, accepting them as such, and spending a lot more energy as a nation on productivity and innovation. All this social fighting, controlling, and engineering is spinning us up and is threatening our national security.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't Biden have a hand on this? He campaigned for the 2020 election on being a transition president to make sure the 2016 election won't ever be repeated again. But then his ego got on the best of him ...

He didn’t think Kamala would win. And he was right. This country is not ready for her. There is only one place to lay blame right now and that is the oligarchy running the country.

Is that why he chose Kamala as his VP?

What's done is done. We need to get to work on the issues at hand. Trump and Musk are the one making poor decisions now. Call your congressman.