<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">When you say "despite this", do you perhaps mean "because of this"? </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">This is not what despite means. bill w</font></span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:03 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 19/11/2021 15:57, John Grigg wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4">I have a close friend who felt royally screwed
over by Krauss while in his physics doctoral program. Upon
learning that his wife and the mother of his children was
cheating on him and leaving, he could no longer concentrate on
his studies, and so requested time off so he could grieve and
get his head on straight. Krauss said no, absolutely not, and
that basically bad things happen in life and you cannot let
them affect your work. I was floored that my buddy was treated
this way. Is this common treatment/policy from public
universities? </font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Despite this, my friend at least had his
masters in physics, and got to work on an upgrade project for
the MRI body scanner, which I thought was very cool. <br>
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<p><font size="4">When you say "despite this", do you perhaps mean
"because of this"?</font></p>
<p><font size="4">Obviously Krauss realised that 'he could no longer
concentrate on his studies' was incorrect, at least.<br>
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<p><font size="4">Ben<br>
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