Meditation is a bloated term in 2019, spiritual materialism is rampant as well. I am Indian-American and feel more connected to the Sanskrit words for things, they are simpler and more descriptive at the same time.
I think there are two reasons why you would see a spike in internationals in a graduate cohort and their number being less in an undergraduate class:
1) experience. most of the international students mentioned in the article from India, China, Turkey, Korea want to have that experience of going to a school in a different country, meeting students from around the globe, listen to lectures and work with people from different background and skills, I think this is something you would certainly lack if you choose to go to grad school in the same geography you got your undergraduate education. Think about this for an American student, who is not so motivated to go to grad school because environment wise it is not going to be a whole lot different than the professors you had for your undergrad class. I'm curious to see numbers for American undergrads who have gone to Europe or Japan to get their graduate degrees for the experience, this might actually be skewed because half the students here in America gets that experience through study abroad programs.
2) cost. the article says there is a very small number of undergraduate internationals compared to graduate student population, it comes down to cost. if you were coming from India, China or the other foreign countries mentioned in the article money wise it would be very expensive for you to pay for 4 years of undergraduate degree compared to 2 years of masters, PhD can be an outlier here, but it has its own benefits. so if you can get an undergraduate degree without causing a dent in your bank account and if you are almost certain that you will eventually go get a masters degree in another country, budget wise that's the most smart thing to do. by the time you are done with your undergrad you'd have a good school experience to go to another country, blend in, and go through school. The reason I mentioned about PhD being an outlier is, with a doctoral degree you might end up being a professor or a research scientist, but when it comes to a masters vs bachelors, chances are, for most of them, you both will likely end up in a similar job at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and others. so why pay twice to get there. not to forget, you might end up with some sort of funding while doing a graduate degree compared to undergraduate.
second in command exits, starting from entry level employees all the way up to the top of the pyramid, people are exiting the firm, this doesn't look good.
good to know of a new kid in the block. when comparing prices, which is dramatically lower than the competitors, I wonder if .0039 cents per gigabyte is basically just the storage cost and not the cost of w/r/d data over a period of time? one thing that's common among aws, azure, and google cloud is they make their money by charging customers for egress of data. so with this low price Wasabi certainly seems like a good place for archival, but not necessarily primary storage which might do a lot of roundtrips throughout the day.
Bandwidth is going to be a major cost driver; this is more a marketing fluff piece than a product offering. No numbers I can find about data transfer, lifecycle operations, multi-region approaches, data durability, or any of the things that AWS handles for us.
I'm highly skeptical for two reasons. The first is that this stuff is hard, and AWS hasn't been particularly gouging people with their pricing model for storage.
The second is looking at the historic on-prem storage market. Generally if you didn't go with the top 3-5 storage vendors, you could expect your vendor to get acquired by one of them, and then immediately EOL whatever you had bought from them, as a few of their features were integrated into the acquirer's offering.
We'll see how it goes, but storage is one of those areas where I'm very slow to adopt new technologies or vendors; mistakes here generally show up catastrophically.
i must say the name, the website, the app's UI all look pretty neat. you seem more of a designer than a developer, may I ask you, what's your expertise?
