
Jason Voorhees
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I remember walking into the Gates Computer Science Building on my tour of Stanford and seeing undergrads casually running complex simulations on a million dollar supercomputer cluster for their CS projects no special permissions needed. I let out an almost audible WTF.
In curryland even to access small lab equipment like oscilloscope for my embedded systems project I had to go through layers of approvals and paperwork and had to wait for week. And even after approval there was a research scholar that would monitor every single thing we did and they maintained a register where everyone who used the equipment had to log in all the details. Exactly how much time to the last minute, for what purposes in detail, which programs with the signatures of everyone involved and God forbid you broke something. They are going to force you to pay the 2x. So we never bothered. I've literally never written a research paper in my life even though I always wanted to because of all this BS and mind you my uni is a tier 1 University in the country with muh cutting edge laboratories that we never used and only served as marketing material.
So only a dozen or so people did research papers in my batch. It was all too tedious but in Stanford. The entire research culture is student centric and built on trust. Even if you break something or make a mistake. They don't make you pay for anything. This is why the Stanford's research papers that it published are so fucking good, innovative and pushing boundaries. I am mirin tbh. Regret not going to an American uni.
In curryland even to access small lab equipment like oscilloscope for my embedded systems project I had to go through layers of approvals and paperwork and had to wait for week. And even after approval there was a research scholar that would monitor every single thing we did and they maintained a register where everyone who used the equipment had to log in all the details. Exactly how much time to the last minute, for what purposes in detail, which programs with the signatures of everyone involved and God forbid you broke something. They are going to force you to pay the 2x. So we never bothered. I've literally never written a research paper in my life even though I always wanted to because of all this BS and mind you my uni is a tier 1 University in the country with muh cutting edge laboratories that we never used and only served as marketing material.
So only a dozen or so people did research papers in my batch. It was all too tedious but in Stanford. The entire research culture is student centric and built on trust. Even if you break something or make a mistake. They don't make you pay for anything. This is why the Stanford's research papers that it published are so fucking good, innovative and pushing boundaries. I am mirin tbh. Regret not going to an American uni.
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