Super busy at work right now.. cant say why.. but it will be out soon

I did take a short break in the middle of the day to meet my freidn Lapo for lucnh downtoawn. Lapo is from Italy and just finished his PhD in Computer Scecince at UVM. His wife Chengi  who is from Hungary also just defended her PhD.. Like most foreing students. they want to get out of the US as qucikly as possible. Its heartbreakign since so much of the braintrust of our country is in students like this who study here.. then make their careers here.. 

here’s a statistic everyoen might be surprised to know..

More than 1/3 of all PhD students in this country are from outher contries and here on onm temporary education visas 

if you narrow that down to Science, technology, engineering and Math (STEM) students, that total is 45 percent of PhD students are here on temporary visas

here’s the shocker. in my feild of electrical engineering, a full 70 percent (!) of phd students are here on temporary visas>

I cannot understand what the cgovenrment thinks is goign to happen if we no longer are welcoming to these students.. our universites will suffer.. and there wont be any talent to run the new manufacturing growth they supposedly want.. It doesnt make sense

THat was just one of the many great conversatiosn that Lapo and I crammed into our hour lunchl.. we talked AI stuff and had soiem ideas fir possible collaboraitosn oence theyy settle downin europe somewhere||even though we dont see each other very much, ill really miss seeing Lapo.. hoe we can stay conencted !

 

 we even had the exact same tyvek wallets covered in engineering formula and measurement devices !

I thikk we’re destined to satay freinds..

nite all. nite sam
-me