Perhaps, but regarding the first 2... 1. Top graduate schools for Olin grads (in order): MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, UC-Berkeley, Cornell. It doesn't seem like people that want to go to grad school are…
> Nothing I learned in college has helped me to the place where I am. :( That's too bad, I hope they change something. Certainly some people will never benefit from organized learning, and perhaps you're in that…
I don't agree, I think it's more likely than not that a school specifically designed to foster a particular type of thinking is at least somewhat more effective at it than others. Just like Stanford is likely more…
Amusingly, I'm an Olin grad with a profitable lifestyle business that I started, so I wasn't included in this stat. I wholeheartedly agree with you on goals and values. Fortunately, Olin isn't a "VC startup factory",…
I really like the Hyperion Cantos - the Ousters make exactly that decision, to forego terraforming in favor of self-modification. Naturally, the natural humans vilify and hunt them.…
Perhaps, but regarding the first 2... 1. Top graduate schools for Olin grads (in order): MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, UC-Berkeley, Cornell. It doesn't seem like people that want to go to grad school are…
> Nothing I learned in college has helped me to the place where I am. :( That's too bad, I hope they change something. Certainly some people will never benefit from organized learning, and perhaps you're in that…
I don't agree, I think it's more likely than not that a school specifically designed to foster a particular type of thinking is at least somewhat more effective at it than others. Just like Stanford is likely more…
Amusingly, I'm an Olin grad with a profitable lifestyle business that I started, so I wasn't included in this stat. I wholeheartedly agree with you on goals and values. Fortunately, Olin isn't a "VC startup factory",…
I really like the Hyperion Cantos - the Ousters make exactly that decision, to forego terraforming in favor of self-modification. Naturally, the natural humans vilify and hunt them.…