[KS] Bad habits in academia, too

[Cedar Bough Saeji]

As a student in a graduate school in Korea, I've got to tell you it's not
always the way you describe.  Now I cannot speak for other schools (and I am
not going to advertise by blowing the horn of my own school) but some of my
professors rock!   I have one professor this term who has given me back 9
weekly papers with comments (not just one or two comments, either!) and gave
me feedback on an early draft of my final paper.  He hasn't missed class and
I have no idea if he's published this term.   Sure some other professors
might have missed a class or two, and they might have published recently,
but if you think they forgot they should teach me, you're wrong.   My
professors do give me my papers back (maybe the beginning of the next term,
but I get them) and they DO have notes on the pages, and I can get feedback
on proposals and drafts and one on one discussions or emails on specific
questions or difficulties I'm having with my work.  I'm not saying that all
my professors are angels, but please don't disrespect Korean professors (or
professors in Korea) as a group.   Sure, there are some people I wish would
shape up a bit in one way or another (be better at lecturing, better at
mentoring, better at assigning useful readings...) but I've learned from all
of them.  If the education you've gotten in Korea is really that bad, maybe
it's the school or the program you're in that's the problem.

Cedar

p.s.  All the research and editing and assisting I've done I've been paid
for (maybe not as much as they'd pay in the US, but I was paid, not used).
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