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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 10, 2001 @03:01AM from the can-i-get-an-honorary-degree-instead dept.

dhollm writes "Well, at least the course materials will be online, for free, for all. The article gives a brief description of the program (evidently costing MIT $100M over 10 years) and the key drivers behind it. So start reading up!"

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Old News by NineNine · 2001-10-10 03:02 · Score: 3, Funny

This was annouced about a year ago.
1. Re:Old News by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-10 04:11 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Heated and lively debates?!? You've never been an MIT student have you?
YOUR DIPLOMA IS WAITINIG!!! by Abnornymous+Howard · 2001-10-10 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Get a Free MIT Education!!!!

j/k... :)
Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-10 03:20 · Score: 3, Funny

This screws up one of the best scenes in Good Will Hunting!!

WILL
The sad thing is, in about 50 years
you might start doin' some thinkin' on
your own and by then you'll realize
there are only two certainties in life.

CLARK
Yeah? What're those?

WILL
One, don't do that. Two-- you dropped
a hundred and fifty grand on an
education you coulda' picked up for a
dollar fifty in late charges at the
Public Library.

I look for a reissue of the DVD "Updated for new technology" anytime now.
To benefit from free MIT education online by Spootnik · 2001-10-10 03:23 · Score: 2, Funny

There's a few people in here who will need to first take remedial English lessons.
Re:Nice, but $100 million? by tswinzig · 2001-10-10 03:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Of course, I don't mean to denigrate the entire idea. It just seems like they're taking credit for something they already do. Did I mention that each week, I take out the trash? That's keeping the world cleaner! Call me Mr. Environmentalist!

Well then, you've successfully learned the first computer science lesson now taught by MIT: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

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"And like that ... he's gone."
Re:Where is the $100M coming from? by tomknight · 2001-10-10 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny

If I were you, I'd get a happy shiny feeling out of that. But then, I'm not a selfish jerk.

Tom.

(Account 190939, having difficulty logging in)

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Oh arse
Big Deal indeed ! by da5idnetlimit.com · 2001-10-10 03:54 · Score: 2, Funny

When I was a student , only 2 things impeded my progression :

1 - Getting there on time (late riser / late Quake player, pick your choice 8)

2 - Finding the course I missed from a friend, or fiend, or anybody who got it, AND/OR reading this filthy writing (mostly mine 8)

Now I don't know about you, but... this would have been a life saver ..

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It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
cool by sulli · 2001-10-10 05:05 · Score: 3, Funny

So shall we find a bridge over the Charles River, and measure it in CmdrTacos?

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sulli
RTFJ.