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I’m also a (formerly disgruntled) lawyer eternally grateful to Stanford and MIT for helping me escape. And like you, I cannot overstate my appreciation. If an
by elliekelly 7y ago
I’m also a (formerly disgruntled) lawyer eternally grateful to Stanford and MIT for helping me escape. And like you, I cannot overstate my appreciation. If anyone involved in these courses stumbles upon this thread - thank you.
- simonebrunozzi 7y agoI've been on the other side (CS professor for two years, apparently students really loved my work) - if you can, email them and tell them about your appreciation. It's worth it. I don't know about others, but in my case I had to put up with a lot of BS, and "older" colleagues that were envious of my "performance" (annual feedback reviews by students). These few emails (and two letters!!) went a long way for me.
- imranq 7y agoI will do that! OCW, and Princeton Coursera have enabled me to do far more than I ever thought was possible as an immigrant kid.
- xhkkffbf 7y agoAbsolutely. One of the older tenured guys at my CS department spent his time playing poker. He blogged about it constantly -- when he wasn't blogging about his yacht which he ran aground. (Eeek!) Another took some of his salary and spent it on a share of a minor league baseball team. He kept talking about how much he loved hanging out with the players, shagging balls in the outfield. But they kept coming up with excuses about why they couldn't pay me as much as them so I left. Boom. I encourage more professors to leave and more students to check out venues like Coursera and Udemy.
- elliekelly 7y agoThanks for the tip, I certainly will!