I'm starting a PhD in Mathematics a few months from now. But something is bothering me. The last 3 PhD students in the group have apparently dropped off the radar - no normiebook, email address or linkedin. Virtually zero online presence
Even my professor has no idea.
Am I to assume they killed themselves after graduating because they couldn't find a job? I've heard PhD students have it pretty bad on job prospects compared to freshly minted undergrads.
I've read their theses from the college libary's archive. It was written in Microsoft Word and graphs were made in Excel. I'm not even joking.
Tyler Sanders
Maybe they found jobs and dropped their online presence to focus on work.
Haha, just kidding. They're totally fucked.
Julian Cooper
So suicide then? Seems plausible. I mean one of the guys unironically wrote their thesis in Microsoft Word...
Ethan Sullivan
top kek still, i think being hired to do top secret or high profile work is more likely than suicide
Jace Barnes
Who gives a shit about that? What was his phd focused on? If he worked on stochastics he's earning more money that he knows what to do with it on Wall Street, if it's in stats he's probably working for google on their algorithms, etc.
Brayden Lopez
I don't really think so. They're theses were below average at best. Mostly just a literature review and text book proofs and derivations
Asher Young
You do realize that theses are almost always a formality, right? They usually ask their professors what's the fastest thing they can do to get ther phd and do just that.
Joshua Smith
What tier is your PhD program?
Look, I dont want to freak you out, but if it's not a top tier program they are likely in deep trouble.
Grayson King
JUST
Nolan Perez
Check em
Jace Carter
This is actually a good question, OP where would you rank your math department nationally?
Nathan Powell
top 10
Ryder Bailey
They are working for Google, Wall Street, NSA, Lockheed, IBM, take your pick. They don't have a linkedin because they don't give a fuck about business contacts and they are set for life.
Angel Martin
Scooped by the g-men. Your in school and you haven't seen the recruitment drive?
Carter Walker
what does this mean? gmen?
Camden Reyes
originally fbi from government man but it's more like a slang for any of the alphabet orgs man you're not very good at deducing things aren't you? i'm not him but that was pretty obvious
ITT Delusional mathfags They killed themselves, OP.
Jose Wright
They fucked their lives up, and there is nothing to boast about. Social media is just vapid boasting. They lost their friends when they embarked on a 4-6 year stint of loneliness.
Take this as a warning.
Parker Young
They were tortured to death by Jews for aspiring to enter the Jew-Asian elite caste.
Daniel Torres
What school and what professor?
Kayden Robinson
Veeky Forums
Camden James
G Men = Government Men = The Feds
Owen Parker
I hardly have a facebook account myself. My e-mail address is not posted online. I do not have a linkedin account. Why would you need to network period? If you have skills that are in demand then I don't see why you need to market yourself. I mean I imagine having certain types of education make you extremely desirable to certain employers so you don't need to care about networking. Even then what makes you think someone should have all those things you listed? It's not like you need facebook, email address or linkedin to live a decent life.
I think you are overthinking these things.
Gavin Long
LyX is best.
Jonathan Carter
>Even my professor has no idea. If hes not worried about it then he does have an idea you dumbass.
Oliver Torres
I was never even aware this was improper
Christopher Hughes
you act like you can do nothing whilst doing a PhD, not so at all, that is retarded
Isaac Thomas
Writing in Word is wrong? What is right then?
Mason Barnes
>you act like you can do nothing whilst doing a PhD, not so at all, that is retarded you don't act like the typical phd student, bugger off.
Cameron Myers
are you serious ?
Sebastian Price
Normiebook and linkedin is for, well ,normies. GET OUT REEEEE
No job? I have to do my own job. Maths would be bad.
Noah Thomas
High schooler detected.
Caleb Myers
I'm sorry. Did you need a custom font or something? What can't word do that you would need? Besides graphs and maths, just import those
Jeremiah Walker
They probably have no idea what being good at spreadsheets programs can do. They probably have some vision of the 2003 edition in their egotistical heads, which is like comparing a Commodore 64 to a self-built gaymen rig.
Tyler Parker
So they could be doing super secret shit. They could have embraced the free software lifestyle and thrown away anything that doesn't use freesoftware.
Or third they could have gone amish or unabomber after discovering some horrifying truth.
What are they working on?
Nolan Sanders
Thinking back on it, it doesn't seem like I've ever met a math PhD who wasn't a professor, and the only physics PhD I ever met also vanished from earth. I wonder what happens to them
Josiah Gomez
They ascend to a higher plane of existence, study it, get a PhD in higher-plane math/physics and ascend again, repeating the process forever.
Carter Barnes
...
Evan Evans
>They probably have no idea what being good at spreadsheets programs can do. Oh god I had a good laugh.
Juan Cooper
>The last 3 PhD students in the group have apparently dropped off the radar - no normiebook, email address or linkedin. Virtually zero online presence yeah it was the same for me. only one of his previous students made it at some university online.
I stopped math too after the phd because the phd was bad. My supervisor was here once a week, which is nice, but I was lazy to learn the topic and I spend my time watching tv shows. At the end, my supervisor did half the work after I was lucky to find that my problem was solved years a ago by the last theorem of a forgotten article.
Nicholas Gutierrez
Kill yourself piggot
Levi Rogers
I've been considering joining the foreign legion after grad is over. Maybe they did it too.