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by aj7 2153 days ago
At Berkeley, the following phenomenon was well known. Towards the end of your program, you’d have to “fight” your advisor to finish. (You were trained, productive, and still earning the salary of a second-year grad student.) The “pets” didn’t have “fight.” It was adjudged that they could do more for the professor’s reputation on the outside.