Posted 01/03/2015 18:00:00
That does seem like a significant detail, Old Mike.
Transcript1 //Mike, Ashley, Abigail, and Thompson are going to lunch at CFV
Mike: What I don't get is how can you just go to the past and become a professor.
Mike: Your Ph.D. -- my Ph.D. -- is from the future.
Old Mike: That'll be a problem, but I can get around it.
2a
Abigail: We can't get a faculty position without a record of a Ph.D., and we can't get admitted to grad school without a record of a B.S.
2b
Abigail: So, we'd have to start from the beginning.
Old Mike: Take the GED, since there are no prerequisites there, then become undergrads again. From there, we'd go to grad school again.
3
Mike: But that process could take 15 years!
Old Mike: The medical technology we have access to here is way better than what you've got. We have another 140 years or so left.
4
Ashley: But you wouldn't have valid birth certificates, so you couldn't prove you were in the country legally.
Old Mike: Pfft. Details.
Mike: What I don't get is how can you just go to the past and become a professor.
Mike: Your Ph.D. -- my Ph.D. -- is from the future.
Old Mike: That'll be a problem, but I can get around it.
2a
Abigail: We can't get a faculty position without a record of a Ph.D., and we can't get admitted to grad school without a record of a B.S.
2b
Abigail: So, we'd have to start from the beginning.
Old Mike: Take the GED, since there are no prerequisites there, then become undergrads again. From there, we'd go to grad school again.
3
Mike: But that process could take 15 years!
Old Mike: The medical technology we have access to here is way better than what you've got. We have another 140 years or so left.
4
Ashley: But you wouldn't have valid birth certificates, so you couldn't prove you were in the country legally.
Old Mike: Pfft. Details.