MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
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Re: MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
#2Sounds like a hacker house. Why call it a university if it doesn't grant degrees?
Re: MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
#3Sounds like a hacker house. Why call it a university if it doesn't grant degrees?
Honestly it probably makes it more acceptable to the "everyone needs to go to college" crowd. Trade schools have been around for a while, but for some reason people think you need a "university degree" to get anywhere. I assume they are trying to bridge that mental gap by using similar language to that of traditional colleges / universities.
Also "trade schools" and / or specialty schools rarely have the same social aspects of a traditional school, which (even if you personally don't value that) is a big selling point for traditional schools. Maybe they are trying to capture some of that and mix it with the specialization of a trade school.
All speculation of course, but seems reasonable I think.
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#4The only point of a modern day university is that they are (a) exclusive, and (b) "guarantee" that students "know" what they are "taught". That's at least what people who hire think.
I remember someone saying "It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process". This holds true here. People only care about the pedigree of your degree, it's substance comes second in my experience.
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#5The only point of a modern day university is that they are (a) exclusive, and (b) "guarantee" that students "know" what they are "taught". That's at least what people who hire think. I remember someone saying "It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process". This holds true here. People only care about the pedigree of your degree, it's substance comes…
By this reasoning, you should put a list of the universities you were admitted to on your resume, not the university that you actually attended. Under these terms, what's the difference between going to Harvard for a couple of semesters and dropping out, and getting admitted to Harvard but deciding to attend Dartmouth instead?
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#6her main focus was getting more minorities into the program. that is racism and sexism, and i'll be damned if i sit back and let some spic bitch ruin academia through prejudice.
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#7Sounds like a hacker house. Why call it a university if it doesn't grant degrees?
Honestly it probably makes it more acceptable to the "everyone needs to go to college" crowd. Trade schools have been around for a while, but for some reason people think you need a "university degree" to get anywhere. I assume they are trying to bridge that mental gap by using similar language to that of traditional colleges / universities. Also "trade schools" and / or specialty schools rarely have the same social…
Honestly, I wish there were major respected trade schools that taught CS/Software Engineering/IT/IS. The university environment, in my opinion, is adverse to the development of good CS knowledge.
Most of us on here, I'd say, have learned through trying and experimentation and that is why we are fairly good at what we proclaim to do.
University doesn't foster that kind of understanding.
I also hate that currently I need to take 5 physics classes, an accounting class, a social sciences class, and 3 "study" classes to get my major.
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#8Sounds quite a bit like a more radical version of Olin College of Engineering not too far from MIT.
From what I've seen that sort of education is more accepted by industry than academia so its a good solution for me. Having an expansive portfolio to show is a very powerful thing.
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#9The only point of a modern day university is that they are (a) exclusive, and (b) "guarantee" that students "know" what they are "taught". That's at least what people who hire think. I remember someone saying "It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process". This holds true here. People only care about the pedigree of your degree, it's substance comes…
I wouldn't say that the substance of e.g. a M.D. degree comes "second". Maybe you're focusing too much on IT?
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#10The only point of a modern day university is that they are (a) exclusive, and (b) "guarantee" that students "know" what they are "taught". That's at least what people who hire think. I remember someone saying "It wouldn't matter if MIT only taught basket weaving as long as they still had such a thorough selection process". This holds true here. People only care about the pedigree of your degree, it's substance comes…
By this reasoning, you should put a list of the universities you were admitted to on your resume, not the university that you actually attended. Under these terms, what's the difference between going to Harvard for a couple of semesters and dropping out, and getting admitted to Harvard but deciding to attend Dartmouth instead?
tbh i had more than one (young) application who mentioned the universities that "were their options" in job interviews