This government is doing everything they can to make the lives of my students a living hell. First it was the kidnappings and deportations, if that wasn’t enough.

Then they defunded their projects, even projects that had already been funded so they destroyed a bunch of in-progress research that can’t be restarted.

Then they started fucking with internships, trying to make it so that foreign students can only get an internship if it’s part of the degree program, which most are not.

And of course they completely slowed the document processing down to a snail pace so that students can’t even get to campus on time for the start of the semester.

Now this. Absolutely insane. America had a higher academic system second to none, people came from around the world to attend our schools, made America better, and brought America back to the places they came from in a positive light.

I have one student who fled civil war, he started learning about CS from a country he took refuge in, made his way to America over years, started at a state school and then worked his way up to the graduate level where he busts his ass working in a kitchen every day to be able to afford it. Today he’s publishing papers at top conferences in CS. Every day he is eager to learn and grateful for all opportunities he’s given.

And this government wants to chase that kind of student out of the country.

Meanwhile my American students show up to class and ask me “is this class hard?” And then they drop it once they find out it takes work, like gasp opening a paper book and reading it faints.

It’s going to take decades to repair this damage and I hope all of you here who voted for it (I know there are plenty) understand the damage you caused with your choice. I wish you’ll help fix it because it’s going to take everyone.

International Students made college so much fun, for a kid who grew up poor, causally studying history with a girl from Japan was out of the realm of possiblity.

This was not only free for me, but I got a large cost of living grant on top of tuition itself being free.

Community College was amazing. For international students it's a very easy way to get a visa. The requirements are basically making tuition payments on time.

Well it's over now. Even if the tides shift again you'd have to be silly to risk coming to such an unstable place.

The US is ruining itself by ruining the minds of the current and next generations of students.

I finally realized that this is irrecoverable from, when you all laughed and derided Vivek Ramaswamy for saying it as it is. You have simply been enjoying the fruits of labour of your forbears and immigrants and have no plans to sustain it for the future.

From Ramaswamy nailed the education challenge - https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/ramaswamy-n...

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers…. This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken [sic] from slumber before & we can do it again…but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

Regardless of your political leanings, American culture has been devaluing knowledge, education and everything else to do with them for a while now.