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An interesting factoid about his alma mater: MIT awards no honorary doctorates. The only path to an MIT PhD is the old-fashioned way: You have to earn it.
by jpmattia 5y ago
An interesting factoid about his alma mater: MIT awards no honorary doctorates. The only path to an MIT PhD is the old-fashioned way: You have to earn it.
- kazinator 5y agoEvidently, though, it offers office space for an indefinite term, if you can just avoid being embroiled in scandals.
- bitL 5y agoEarn it and pay a fee. I think there is at least one case of a person who earned it but didn't pay the fee and ended up without PhD.
- leephillips 5y agoFee? This doesn‘t sound right at all. Credible institutions pay their graduate students (a little), not the other way around.
- bitL 5y agoOK, it was Harvard and Dennis Ritchie who didn't submit a bound copy of his thesis to Harvard library because he didn't want to pay the fee, so he didn't receive his PhD. https://dmrthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AlbertMeyer-DMRThesisStory.pdf https://dmrthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AlbertMeyer...
- tjr 5y agoHis earned degree was from Harvard; he was admitted to MIT graduate school, but dropped out of academics to focus on programming.