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You’re absolutely right, it’s not easy to do. But it’s also one reason it’s good to check with specific universities. What you’ll find is that many try very hard to provide stipends, and if you help lead lectures you can even get an income. It’s not unusual to net ~20k a year. That won’t cover rent and food, but it’s not bad!

This of course is only for research degrees. Law and medical degrees will be incredibly expensive.

So as a more detailed example, BU offers “full funding guarantee”. https://www.bu.edu/grad/admission-funding/phd-funding

You would be living tight, but you wouldn’t be going into debt. Many schools offer similar programs.

https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/Trends-in-College-Pricing-and-Student-Aid-2025-final_1.pdf

But if it’s something you’re seriously considering, I recommend settling on your research topic, and looking into the specific universities you’re considering. Each school tends to report really good data regarding their graduate schools. Start reaching out to the professors you’d consider studying under, they generally are very responsive if you come with directed questions relevant to their area of study. From there you can work with the university admin to understand what funding options may be available to you.

What do you mean? Masters are extremely pricey, but in general a PhD candidate will pay nothing out of pocket, and likely will get a stipend.

And Chinese universities were already quickly catching up, and in some cases leading. That will accelerate now. All those best-and-brightest Chinese researchers have less and less motivation to come study in the US each passing day.

No, that was my point … Even if you don’t intend it, you’re mimicking the cynical, defeatist attitude of disinformation campaigns. My hope was to encourage a more positive interaction style.

Yeah, but most VIP are escorted around the standard security. For this to happen they went in looking for something.

Either you’re a bot, or you’ve been suckered in by their propaganda.

Think about it … The first step was to divide right/left. Now that the left may be able to present an opposition, the new narrative is to divide the left.

You don’t know that guy. You don’t know how he voted. Just enjoy being on the same team and focus on what you’ll do NOW to make things better

Not a hypothetical. I spend a lot of time in Asian factories as they’re bringing up more capacity to avoid Chinese tariffs. The vast majority fund their out-of-China-operations with BTC because they can move it around without interference from the Chinese government. I saw more than a few Russian groups touring these new factories.

People only band together and revolt when they prioritize the interests of the group over their personal interests. It takes a lot for people to risk their lives standing up against oppression. I’m worried that Americans are too self serving to be willing to stand up. We’d need to see a groundswell of solidarity before it’d be a real risk.

You’re being reductive. If Biden would have stepped back earlier, if Kamala wouldn’t have coddled Israel, if the dems didn’t cozy up to the Cheneys, if the party could have admitted where mistakes were made and promised to correct them, then dem voters would have felt like there’s a chance for their interests to be represented, then the election would have been a landslide.

I’m not saying America isn’t misogynistic, but the election loss isn’t solely due to that.

Whoa whoa whoa… That’s starting to sound like… gasp… EMPATHY

In this case, you can argue that “not showing up” is doing their job, since they’re protecting the voice of their constituents.

Republicans:Dems in Texas are currently 25:12 (one vacant seat), versus if they had truly fair districting, it would be 21:17.

They want to push it even more extreme. That seems unfair, and undemocratic to me.

He could have put in so many safeguards on his way out the door. Instead he chose to do nothing, except pardon his own family