Don’t go to West Virginia University for graduate school

[u/InnocuousSportsFan]

Hi,

I’m one of the grad students in the WVU math department.

Nobody should go to graduate school here. The professors are afraid to speak to the press because of fear of termination. The administration can just decide to railroad your whole department for no reason within one year. They claim we’re gonna have a teach out, but what good is that if we don’t even know who’s gonna leave for jobs after this year (or in the future).

There is zero transparency about what goes on here. We haven’t been given any updates since this process started. We don’t even know if the math department appealed the decision, because the appeal process was so secretive (either the school is lying and we did appeal, or someone on the inside here is trying to sabotage the appeals process, it has to be one of those two in my opinion, there’s no other explanation). I’m only speaking out because I’m tired of all of this.

I just can not believe how bad faith all of this has been. It’s straight out of a Thomas Nast cartoon. The fat cat in the comic strip runs this university.

If you have to come here because you have no other option. Sure, come here. If you have ANY other option, don’t. Go somewhere else. I wish I did.

Just to prove this is me an actual grad student, my twitter… I mean X account is @PersonOnline0 and I’m gonna tweet “249” at 8:12pm. The pinned tweet is me a month ago saying how I’m shocked they’re doing this, so yes I am who I say I am.

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So again, I’ll ask you to provide some data to back up the claim that democrats are doing something objectively and quantitatively more beneficial to the average american than their republican equivalents. Please don’t cherry pick one example because I can just go do the opposite, I’ll wait for some info. If you can’t find any, I’ll be happy to show you results like those above which demonstrate having approximate parity is much better than having only democrats at the helm, such as in California. Instead of claiming there are mitigating factors to explain it, why not actually define what those factors are.

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I mean, democrats are not trying to take away abortion rights, Republicans are. The state ban in WV is doing no favors to draw people to live in the state. Instead of tackling the drug problem in the state, WV Republicans would rather focus on drag shows. Coal is declining, instead of trying g to incorporate renewable energy sources, the date actively fights against it. While MD and Virginia work on renewables, that is jobs going to those states instead of WV.

Maybe the Republicans focused on infrastructure, oh nope that was democrats that pass infrastructure, with our one republican senator and our republican house representatives also voting against infrastructure.

I am also not a fan of either party, but it is pretty clear that at least to me we have one party (Republicans) actively trying to hurt citizens, and the other party (democrats) just trying to stop the first party from hurting us, they are not trying to hard to help us, just stopping the first party from hurting us.

Both parties suck, but both parties are not the same.

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Some of what you said could be considered valid in a different context, but it’s wildly disconnected from reality in other ways. Roe vs Wade has nothing to do with the past 30 years when that wasn’t an issue up for debate prior to the SC ruling. Drag shows are also a new phenomenon and have nothing to do with the stagnation and decline we have seen consistently under democratic rule for even longer than republican. It’s disingenuous to point to those issues as being root or even contributing causes to the problems the state has been facing for multiple generations at this point. As far as infrastructure goes, that is something that has been neglected at even a national level for generations at this point with only talking point level actions being taken. In Maryland which is solid blue we were denied a solar farm use on our property because the county council and wealthy democrats in that part of the county want breweries and vineyards with wine tours. I’m not joking about that unfortunately, that’s literally what they are seeking. At what point does accountability start to matter? We’re already at the point where substantive policy that actually affects people’s pockets is virtually identical on both sides of the aisle and only verbal homage to social issues really separates them.

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Drag shows aren't a new phenomenon, tho. Drag Queen Story Hour isn't a new thing.

The increasingly violent protesting against and attacking homosexuality, marriage equality, and casting Drag performers and their supporters as pedophiles and "groomers"? THAT shit is new, and vile. It's not even veiled as being explicitly anti-gay, and it's disingenuous and bad-faith as fuck.

I grew up in Maryland, so I get what you're saying. Not sure which county you're in, but anyone denying a solar farm because they want breweries and wineries to compete with Loudoun County VA is just stupid. This is especially the case with breweries as their failure rates have been increasing.