All Posts Tagged With: “Online classes”

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Studying at MIT for Free

I spent a few minutes with my teenage son last night watching a mad professor flailing a student with cat fur.
Actually, the MIT physics professor wasn’t mad, but he was entertaining. Walter H. G. Lewin was giving a demonstration on electrical charges in a class exploring electricity and magnetism. After getting pelted by the swatch […]

11Dec2008 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
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Attending College at Home

One way to shrink the cost of college is to never show up.
A story in The New York Times today reports that an increasing number of college students are taking online classes because of the high price of gasoline. With at least 79% of college students living off campus, the exploding price of gas can […]

11Jul2008 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued