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[glatt]

Originally Posted by Char*Pntr

I'll be watching the rest of the videos, mainly out of curiosity, why some students pay big big bucks to attend MIT, as opposed to a smaller and less expensive college (as I did) to learn the same thing.

You don't go to a place like MIT just to take the courses. You go there to make friends with the other people who are also going there. It makes the environment more enriching, and as a bonus, you have connections all over the world for the rest of your life in your chosen field.

[Char*Pntr]

Duly noted. There is an intangible value to attending a high profile university, such as MIT. BTW, when I was leaving the service, I traveled to MIT to check it out as I was selecting a university to attend. Back in '81 they told me the tuition was around $13K per year. I thought at that time I could never afford that of my GI education grant.

Spent the weekend there tho, talking to the students. I remember this one corridor, the students called it the "infinite" corridor, as it was so long. Probably long gone by now.

Originally Posted by glatt

You don't go to a place like MIT just to take the courses. You go there to make friends with the other people who are also going there. It makes the environment more enriching, and as a bonus, you have connections all over the world for the rest of your life in your chosen field.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Char*Pntr

Spent the weekend there tho, talking to the students. I remember this one corridor, the students called it the "infinite" corridor, as it was so long. Probably long gone by now.

Nope, still there. My sister's a grad student there.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by glatt

You don't go to a place like MIT just to take the courses. You go there to make friends with the other people who are also going there. It makes the environment more enriching, and as a bonus, you have connections all over the world for the rest of your life in your chosen field.

Also, you get to do research on really important issues of our times...

Scientists learn physics behind how cats drink water without getting wet

Something as complex as a cat drinking water doesn't get unraveled and turned into a paper at the nation's top science journal overnight.
It was almost four years ago that Roman Stocker, an associate professor at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
became interested in how his cat, Cutta Cutta (or "Stars Stars" in the Australian aboriginal language), drank.
His enthusiasm spread to Aristoff, Sunghwan Jung, now an engineer at Virginia Tech, and Pedro Reis,
a physicist who works on the mechanism of soft solids at MIT.