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Categorically disagree with that. The most valuable aspect of an elite engineering education IMO is getting to participate in a culture of elite professional ac
by an-allen 7y ago
Categorically disagree with that. The most valuable aspect of an elite engineering education IMO is getting to participate in a culture of elite professional academics. The spirit and energy which you learn to tackle REALLY ABSURDLY HARD problems is the most important thing I learned from my Rice EE education. Being able to find folks who were putting probes on Mars and Titan and being able to work with them to help build algorithms and visualisations to show insights from the data collected from these foreign worlds... that was the most valuable thing about my elite education... Honestly, most people don't even look at the school or even recognise it when I apply for jobs... The experience and participating with really smart people tackling really hard problems remains the most valuable thing for me 15 years after the fact.
- samatman 7y agoThis is a mistake on my part which I should have seen coming. I said "value", and that conflated value to oneself with value to and as perceived by others. Which are definitely not the same thing, and I was referring to the market value of a degree from MIT. I don't happen to think half a semester of working remote is going to do much to dampen the intrinsic value of an elite education, either. It will mark the cohort as remarkable, having shared the distinctive experience of being Extremely Online together.