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Originally Posted by flappist
Well what do you expect from a goup of car hating academic nutters.
How about a fact sheet on universities:
Facts:
1) Illegal drug use is rife within tertiary education.
2) Extreme anti government and anti society groups who engage in protests some involving damage to public and private property are very common in tertiary education institutions.
3) Unroadworthy and dangerous motor vehicles are very common in universities.
So for a start we have drug using terrorist mentality road hazzards telling us how we should live our lives.
I wonder if they would dispute my facts.....
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I think you may need to have a rethink about classifying uni students as academics. Most uni students are not "academics."
There are few who choose the academic path because it is so gruelling for little short-term reward. It involves at minimum a 4 to 5 year Honours degree, then a 4 year PhD, and then post-doctoral studies. It is difficult because during a Bachelor w/ Honours degree you usually only have the money you get from parents, centrelink or part-time job. It's very hard to work a part time job when striving for 1st class honours which is necessary to qualify for a PhD scholarship. PhD scholarships are just over $20,000 a year for 3.5 years max (FYI PhD's are the equivalent of a full time job, often more because of weekend work). You only start earning decent money when you start post-docing (which is very competitive) and continued success and opportunity to 'climb the ladder' is largely dependent on how many papers you can get published.
This means that you end up about 26-27 with no money or assets to your name, whilst you've watched all your friends go travelling, have kids and buy a house. The point I'm making is that an academic is about as far as you can get from the binge drinking 'happy with a pass' yobs who live in the unibar or those who use their short time at university to launch their 'political' careers.