PFC Chapter 3570 Edge of Tomorrow (6)
Chapter 3570 Edge of Tomorrow (6)
Chapter 3570 Edge of Tomorrow (XVI)
Talking about Schiller's teaching situation in recent years, it is also a tearful experience.
Currently, he has three doctoral students and five graduate students, and two doctoral students from other supervisors who have been transferred here. In other words, he now has a total of ten students.
The value of master's and doctoral degrees in the United States is very high. The courses are difficult, the thesis requirements are high, and the graduation period is long. About 30% of doctoral students cannot graduate in their lifetime.
That is to say, one-third of American doctoral students will never be able to obtain a doctoral degree in their lifetime.
This is especially true for prestigious universities. The doctoral delay rate at Gotham University has always remained above 70%, with more than half of the doctoral students unable to graduate on time. 40% of the doctoral students have a delay of more than three years.
Take Bruce for example, it seems that he is quite outrageous - he has not graduated with a doctorate after several years. But in fact, this situation is very common in Gotham University, and there are many people who have delayed longer than him.
A rotating doctoral student accepted by Schiller last year is 42 years old this year. He has rotated through six supervisors, three of whom have retired, two have gone to other doctoral stations, and the last one is Schiller. And judging from the current situation, he will not graduate this year.
As far as Schiller knows, among the students at Gotham University who are still unable to graduate with a doctorate degree, the oldest is already 45 years old. Not only does he have a family and a job, he has also obtained four master's degrees, but he is still unable to graduate with his only doctorate degree.
Therefore, even if Bruce delays for another 10 years, he cannot be considered as someone with difficulty in graduating.
The main reason for this situation is that the doctoral graduation requirements of prestigious American universities are too stringent, reaching an inhuman level.
First of all, a PhD is not just about writing a paper, you also have to take advanced professional courses like an undergraduate. There are 14 advanced professional courses in psychology alone, three of which are very difficult courses, and the annual pass rate is stable at 60%.
If you fail a course in a year, you must retake it. You are not allowed to shorten the course time and you have to take the course again from the beginning.
After completing all the courses, you have to take an exam, commonly known as the doctoral graduation exam. The difficulty of this exam is even more outrageous.
The comprehensive qualifying exam for Schiller's psychology course consists of a 7-hour written test within one day, a clinical application test within three days, and a week-long topic analysis test.
After everything is finished, teachers from relevant majors in the college will mark the papers and give comprehensive scores together. Each person has only three chances. If you fail the exam three times, you will be expelled directly.
Even after passing the exam, you still can't start writing the paper directly, but you have to take a two-month paper writing training course. After passing the course, you still have to take the exam, and the training phase ends only after you pass the exam.
Most people need 3 to 4 years to complete the training phase. Even for super geniuses, it will take at least two years to complete all courses and take all exams.
Only after passing the training phase can you start writing your dissertation. The review standards for doctoral dissertations are even more outrageous, which means that you can only be considered an expert in a certain niche and have world-class innovative achievements to have a chance of passing.
Gotham University has a good source of students in the field of psychology due to its unique geographical location. Of the five PhD students under Schiller, only one who just started his PhD this year has not passed the comprehensive qualification test, while the others have already finished their exams and started writing their papers.
But when it comes to writing papers, Schiller is overwhelmed.
This brings us to Schiller's own academic journey.
In fact, in his previous life, Schiller was just an ordinary university professor, not a very well-known figure, let alone an industry expert. In terms of the academic level of psychological theory, he was just average, and did not achieve anything worth mentioning.
Because most of his energy is not focused on academic research, he only does his job at work and most of the time he is just an ordinary university teacher.
However, after coming to DC, his predecessor was already a world-renowned psychologist, and he could not stop being a master of psychology if he wanted to.
It was not until this time that Schiller began to focus most of his energy on academics. Fortunately, his unique talent for psychoanalysis allowed him to move smoothly in this area and maintain his image as a psychologist.
But speaking of it, the original incarnation before this, Anatoly, did not study theory, but focused on application. He did not study either behavioral analysis or psychoanalysis - he did not study analysis at all.
After Schiller came, he turned to the study of psychoanalysis, which did not surprise the industry, because most disciplines are like this: starting from the applied field when young, and beginning to study pure theory in old age.
This is because the fundamental purpose of all disciplines is to explore the world, and studying theories is closer to exploring the truth of the universe. Every scientist who has achieved a certain level of academic achievement must have such a pursuit.
Schiller has so many students because he is well-known for his knowledge of both applied and theoretical psychology. Who wouldn't want to have an industry leader as their mentor?
Moreover, all people who study psychology criticize psychoanalysis while wanting to study it. They have the idea that “this thing is too outrageous, I want to see what it is all about.”
In fact, there are many empaths among Schiller's students. There are many people who are born with empathy like Jenna, and some are even more gifted than her. But this does not mean that they can write a paper that is good enough for them to graduate.
As we all know, empathy is the ability to understand other people's moods at a certain moment by resonating with their emotions, thereby analyzing their psychology and drawing a series of conclusions.
Therein lies the problem, that is, the foundation of empathy is emotion, and words cannot fully describe emotion. For the complex and beautiful human emotional system, all words are inadequate.
The basis of empathy and psychoanalysis is emotion, but the basis of the paper is logic. Writing a psychoanalytic paper is to express emotions with logic, which is contradictory in itself.
Many people have this feeling when watching TV dramas or appreciating paintings, that is, the transmission of emotions is abstract.
When you see a picture or hear a certain piece of music, what comes to your mind is not a precise word, but an abstract feeling.
How to summarize abstract feelings into logical inferences and vocabulary is the key to writing a good psychoanalytic paper.
However, most people can only focus on one point: people with empathy tend to be too inclined to describe abstract feelings, while people who are naturally rational and logical lack emotional experience.
Therefore, Schiller's thesis can be roughly summarized as two types: emotionally rich and beautiful prose and conventional and old-fashioned and empty expository writing. No one can perfectly combine them. This is really a sad story.
Of course, some people have turned to behavioral analysis. But as long as it is an analytical method, it is difficult to avoid studying emotions. Humans are emotional animals. The motivations of various behaviors cannot be based solely on rational logic. There must be passion and impulse.
As precise as they were in their purely logical analysis, they were full of gibberish in their emotional analysis, which made many parts of their papers seem even more difficult to understand than the delirious ravings of a hysterical patient.
It is difficult to correct this part, because everyone has different feelings about emotions. Schiller told them his feelings, but most people could not fully understand them, let alone write something useful based on Schiller's feelings. In the end, it still depends on themselves.
Therefore, compared to the normal teaching process - students complete their work independently, teachers point out the shortcomings, and students make corrections to improve their academic level - Schiller is more like playing a card drawing game.
That is to say, doing some superficial work that looks like teaching, but actually just relying on luck and waiting for delivery: leaving the students there, waiting for them to have an epiphany one day, integrate sensibility and rationality, achieve academic results and graduate; or finally realize that they are not suitable for studying psychology, and simply give up and let each other go.
Of course, although helping them revise their papers rarely provided any substantial help, Schiller would still conscientiously read everything they sent and give them advice as much as possible.
This is not out of consideration for creating talents for the psychology field, but mainly to shirk responsibility and let them realize that their failure to graduate is not the fault of their tutors. This may speed up their giving up.
It is the same in any country. Responsible tutors are actually rare, and tutors who are both competent and responsible are even rarer. Schiller's responsible attitude made him well-received among students. Although some students called him too strict, there was still an endless stream of students who wanted to apply for his graduate and doctoral programs every year.
Gotham University is taking advantage of the situation by recruiting new students and transferring students who are struggling to graduate to his school. This has resulted in his card pool becoming increasingly complex, and the probability of pulling out good cards has become even lower. It's a truly despairing story.
However, although there are no serious strength cards, there are a lot of acrobatic players. In addition to the serious thesis level, it really has everything you need. If it is packaged into a villain organization, it can probably shoot eight seasons of Suicide Squad, plus two games.
As I said, if you study psychology, you will either die or go crazy. And those who can study this subject and survive under such academic pressure are mostly crazy.
Although antisocial personality is mostly innate, it is not necessarily impossible to cultivate it. There are many examples of people who take revenge on society because of excessive pressure and mental disorder. However, in Gotham, people are not used to swinging knives at the weak, but are more precise, elegant and artistic.
After Schiller sent the email, he received a reply soon. The other party was unwilling to let go of this big fish, and gave an address in the reply email and invited him to meet.
Schiller was a little surprised when he saw the number on the address. It turned out to be in the activity building of the old campus of Gotham University.
After Gotham University moved, the old campus was not completely demolished. Half of the land was sold, and the other half was left to be used as an art museum and some teaching buildings for liberal arts and art subjects.
No wonder the Brainiac Support Group acted so arrogantly, but there was no news of any conflict in the school. It turned out that they set up their base in the old campus.