Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

On May 12, 2025, Scott Lurndal wrote
(in article <3GnUP.43956$eAtc.12546@fx05.iad>):

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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When I got into grad school in Mechanical Engineering at TAMU in 1982, I
was the only USA citizen. The rot has been going on that long. I
dropped out when I found a job that spring when I got my undergraduate
degree.

>
That's a different problem. That's the lack of interested and qualified
American students for engineering programs. Also... when
I was an undergrad I heard a lot of freshman engineering students talking
about how they had picked their major entirely because they expected to
make big money as engineers. This is not the way to get good engineering
graduates.

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I think Lynn may also have been exaggerating - I was in University
at the same time, and while there were a number of foreign graduate
students, there were an equal number of domestic grad students. A lot
of the foreign students were from Iran and were stranded here in
1979.

that’swhat happened to the Mad Iranians at my old uni.