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Image Credit: Viola Ng via Flickr EdX, the online collaboration that started between MIT and Harvard last May, and expanded to six universities in the […]
Boston’s multitudes of college kids had a lot of time on their hands while snowed in by last weekend’s blizzard, and according to our calculations, […]
(Snow Melters on loan from Massport, photo via City of Boston) As Boston continues to dig out from Nemo, the city is facing an age-old […]
The death of Aaron Swartz has led to deep introspection on the part of the MIT community. Professor Hal Abelson, one of the founders of […]
Image Credit: Sage Ross via Flickr In the wake of internet activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide this weekend, local institutions, from the U.S. Attorney’s office in […]
Jin Pan, the MIT student behind “Hobo Jacket,” a viral, controversial website designed to provide coats to the homeless, has taken his site off the […]
Update: Pan has removed his site from the web and posted an apology. Read about it here. Original: MIT student Jin Pan has posted a response […]
A screenshot from “Hobo Jacket” Authors of a website who claim to be students at MIT are attempting to offend us into donating to the […]
To America’s blue bloods, the annual Harvard-Yale matchup is a sacred event. Hell, President John F. Kennedy once said that the rush his job […]
And why Harvard—Harvard!—is scrambling to catch up.
A new online education program from Harvard and MIT is poised to transform what it means to go to college.
Move, over MIT: Here comes Bridgewater State! (Photo via Thinkstock) Despite a slow economy and low level of inflation, the price of a college education […]
“It’s almost a slap in the face to someone who really is bootstrapping – to see someone given 10’s of millions just because of their name.”
U.S. News and World Report released their annual list of college and university rankings yesterday, and Boston-area schools are well represented yet again. Harvard and […]
Not too long ago, I wrote up an interview with Ed Boyden, an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab. It was a Q&A about […]