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A comment on "10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota.

Re:"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota by richcollins on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @05:36PM (#53557)
> One: You can and will work at a desk for seven hours straight, routinely

Sign me up. Nothing I like better than being routinely forced to work for 7 hours straight so I can make the grade.

Maybe this is why the smartest people I know drop of out school to learn and work on their own terms.

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Re:"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota by neilc on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @06:25PM (#53575)
If you'd think of the work you need to do to get an MIT degree as "forced work" that you need to put in just to "make the grade", then yes, I'd agree you'd be better off dropping out, or going to somewhere where the standards are more lax.
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