Sorry this blog has been dead for the past month. Mr. Computer died and no one knew what was wrong with it. It seems to be working now, but I still don’t have a clear diagnosis of what the problem is/was. If any readers are tech-savvy and have suggestions about why a laptop will refuse to switch on, or switch on and then shutoff spontaneously, I’d be eternally grateful.
On to news. As you may have heard, Harvard lost $8 billion in the first quarter of this financial year. That’s 22% …Continue

What do Harvard students have that makes them better? What do they get out of their education that can make them rich? Make them future business leaders of America? According to Daniel Wallace, Class of 2008, the best thing a Harvard student has is the secret of how to get into Harvard. His website, GetIntoHarvard.net, sells a 56-page guide called Get into Harvard for $27.
Wallace claims that not only did he get into Harvard, but he has:
read over tons of books, over 1,000 blog posts, too many forum entries to …Continue

Unlike in Kazakhstan and many other countries, most universities do not have a set curriculum for their students. Commonly students are required to take 6-14 classes in their major (specialized field of study), which is the equivalent of one to two years. However for the past 20 years, undergraduates have almost unrestricted choices of classes to take beyond that. Although it isn’t uncommon for a university to require each student to take one class in the hard sciences, one in the social sciences, one in the arts, and one in …Continue

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Once upon a time, a man and wife, dressed in old and unfashionable clothes, asked to see the President of Harvard. The secretary, practically laughing, brought them in. They sat down and said that they wanted to donate some money to Harvard to start a new college or department.The President of Harvard looked over their clothes and figured they wanted to give a hundred dollars or so. He said, “Well it’s very expensive to start a new school. You have to pay for the building, …Continue