Before he left, the one (worked out) (STEM) (Brazilian) was telling me more about the “sandwich” year that’s typical in Ph.D.s there, where you go abroad for a semester or two early in your dissertation to work with people in your field, and how it’s such a well-known thing that it’s even listed on your resumes, like where you did your Ph.D. and also where you spent your time during your “sandwich.”
And, he said it’s been typical for a while but Lula really took funding it more seriously, and there are exceptions like someone he knows spent time at a university in (India) and the topic and approach there ended up not being relevant at all to their project, although it seemed like it would be going in, but with his work, (Americans) use different types of mathematics and parameters in modelling the stuff that he models and they do it differently than the way that you’d learn it in (Brazil) from the schools of thought there, and so from his point of view, it’s just hugely worthwhile and he’s just a big, big believer in the system.
And, I can see why the program is effective, and also why it’s a good way for a country with a young university system to invest in its human capital and build up its home-grown knowledge base.
On another, related matter, he was also saying that I should try to teach or work in (Brazil), since “Brazilians love the U.S.”
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