My Eight-Year Journey to a PhD
Language: en
After eight years in France, I returned with three PhDs and was invited onto a popular reality TV job-seeking show. Sitting in the audience, a female boss examined my resume, then smiled confidently. "I also studied in France," she announced. "What a coincidence. Shall I test you?" Without waiting for a reply, she switched to fluent French and asked a brief question. Her words left me speechless. In the silence, whispers spread through the audience. The woman, introduced as Victoria, laughed first. She turned to the camera with a theatrical sigh. "It seems some overseas students aren’t…