Comments on: The View From MIT http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/14/the-view-from-mit/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:04:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Bob V http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/14/the-view-from-mit/#comment-43195 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:45:35 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/14/the-view-from-mit/#comment-43195 I wouldn't be so concerned with an undergraduate commenting that his office is “like a soap opera.” Such rhetoric is the stuff of small talk. When I was a consultant, I would often talk to past associates about the zoo that my current project is or relate the dramas going on in my old project. Now that I am back in academia, I talk to my old friends about the "soap opera" that is my current department. Maybe MIT can do a better job of preparing its graduates. However, I don't take such comments as an indication that they are not doing a good job of it now. I wouldn’t be so concerned with an undergraduate commenting that his office is “like a soap opera.” Such rhetoric is the stuff of small talk. When I was a consultant, I would often talk to past associates about the zoo that my current project is or relate the dramas going on in my old project.

Now that I am back in academia, I talk to my old friends about the “soap opera” that is my current department.

Maybe MIT can do a better job of preparing its graduates. However, I don’t take such comments as an indication that they are not doing a good job of it now.

]]> by: August http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/14/the-view-from-mit/#comment-42946 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:33:03 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/09/14/the-view-from-mit/#comment-42946 Another view from M.I.T. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7603731854830368188&q=fab+labs&total=79&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Hopefully the link works. Its a Ted Talk from Neil Gershenfeld. He's started something called Fab Labs (fabrication). Anyway, it's fascinating, and it proves demand driven education works. I can't go into a full description here, but I think this is a great model for how things could work. He has a book out there by the same name too. Another view from M.I.T.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7603731854830368188&q=fab+labs&total=79&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Hopefully the link works. Its a Ted Talk from Neil Gershenfeld. He’s started something called Fab Labs (fabrication). Anyway, it’s fascinating, and it proves demand driven education works. I can’t go into a full description here, but I think this is a great model for how things could work.

He has a book out there by the same name too.

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