京都大学

[ndwarf64]

So I looked at Kyoto University's website, and it looks amazing. Their graduate math/physics program is like exactly what I'm looking for. Hmm...could be an interesting graduate school experience. Hmm...will I be able to get a job back in the states if I get my Ph.D. in Japan? How would letters of recommendation from American professors work? How

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[dynamint]

Isn't there a huge bug in your basement?

Anyway, the advice my department gives about grad schools is that you should go in the country you want to find work in; otherwise you don't have a useful network of contacts and it may be harder to get your work accepted, especially if it's in different languages.

[ndwarf64]

That was what I was thinking too. Then I looked up where people go, and there seems to be some high level connections since graduates tend to become professors at places like Harvard and Princeton. They've had three graduates win the Fields Medal. I'm wondering if that is the most any single university can boast.

Anyway, that picture is of the bug. Yes, it is next to a quarter and thus it is approximately twice the size of a quarter. That is pretty darn scary.