I thought I recognized his name from an article a while back in Wired covering cold fusion. I was right.... (well, at least on the memory that he seemed like a quack.)
From the search you'll see bios listing him as a publisher of a paper on the Grand Unified Theory.
C'mon.
A better village voice article in 99 that was already skeptical. I like how he promised "I'll have demonstrated an entirely new form of energy production by the end of 2000".
Hardly destroying MIT but spreading its culture
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Having attended MIT only 3 years ago let me say:
Students already view old exams and problem sets. In fact professors hand them out in classes. Likewise students help each other out by giving (what we call) bibles of previously taken courses to students currently taken the course. (Note: professors sometime ask us not to do so because they re-use material, others don't)
Professors do not have extra work because they are already doing web pages or they have TAs do the web pages.
Students are already annoyed at profs that don't do some sort of online updating. As for lawsuits...that's just silly. Students won't be graded on this.
All students at MIT have access to computers in the public clusters at MIT. As for this scenario, you're right...those with computers have the advantage. MIT can't do anything about that. However, those with the desire can go use public computers in libraries, etc.
As for this idea, it's great. I for one was sad to leave MIT with so many interesting classes un-taken. I thought when I retired, I would return to my alma mater to audit classes for the joy of education. Now they're just making it easier and sooner for me to do.
If anything, what MIT teaches you is not in the courses. It's time management, work ethic and the desire to learn and understand. You don't get that from auditing classes, and thus MIT will always be a great institution to attend.
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Because there are gushers in the middle of France and Germany...
Please. Why do the Europeans worry about Middle East wars? Because it affects their oil imports even more than the US.
Oil exports from the Middle East
There are reasons to live in Europe...and there are not. No place is perfect.
I thought I recognized his name from an article a while back in Wired covering cold fusion. I was right.... (well, at least on the memory that he seemed like a quack.)
From the search you'll see bios listing him as a publisher of a paper on the Grand Unified Theory.
C'mon.
A better village voice article in 99 that was already skeptical. I like how he promised "I'll have demonstrated an entirely new form of energy production by the end of 2000".
As for this idea, it's great. I for one was sad to leave MIT with so many interesting classes un-taken. I thought when I retired, I would return to my alma mater to audit classes for the joy of education. Now they're just making it easier and sooner for me to do. If anything, what MIT teaches you is not in the courses. It's time management, work ethic and the desire to learn and understand. You don't get that from auditing classes, and thus MIT will always be a great institution to attend.