Mike сказал(а) :
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> Actually for me PhD was the main reason to move to States.
> The program is very interesting and I am working with
> brilliant people. My advisor is a very famous guy in his
> field moreover he has a very nice personality. So I am
> completely satisfied.
I'll also start the PhD program this October, though I don't really care for it.
But they've promissed that it would be connected strongly to my current project
and that I won't have to attend the majority of the classes. So I gave in to that.
But I still am thinking about dropping the whole thing.
> During dot com boom I was regulary receiving job offers from
> American companies (I am pretty fluent in Java :) ) but I
> decided that science is much more interesting thing for me.
Yep, Java's a rather nice thing.
> What you were doing in States? I think it was premature to
> move to States before graduating from mex-mat (or any other
> university). One of my friends moved to America after he
> finished his first year at mex-mat. He attended a second-tier
> univ. and as far as I know he was not very happy.
I graduated high school there. And for me the main thing was to see the way of living of people there, which I did see allright, and didn't really like what I saw.
> Many people here know about MSU albeit under different names
> like Moscow University, Moscow State University, Moscow
> National (?) University. From time to time professors ask me
> from which school I have graduated so in some sence I am a
> free ad for mex-mat :)
Good for you :) well, and for Mech Math as well.
> For now I don't have plans to start learning Spanish because
> I need to spend more time to refine my English and only after
> I would see some substantial results I would consider
> learning some other languages.
I wouldn't worry about that too much. English will come naturally to you.
Take your time to learn another language, it will bring diversity into your vocabulary, since
while learning some language you're bound to find out lots of things about the language you already know.
Right now I am trying to bring my spanish to perfection, and at the same time am learning (in a rather relaxed way) two other languages, catalan and italian. Within two years I plan to master them two and stop the language "crusade".
So tell me, after you're daone with your PhD, what are you gonna do?
