Matt Blaze on Nostr: Context: Students at some schools, overwhelmingly outside the US, often get bad ...
Context: Students at some schools, overwhelmingly outside the US, often get bad advice to spam hundreds or even thousands of essentially random professors with "applications" to PhD programs. It's bad advice, and doesn't work. but people continue to give it and follow it. And professors everywhere are overwhelmed by it, often causing us to miss actual questions from legitimately prospective students.
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