MIT dean takes aim at admissions anxiety
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Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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For some reason, noon just comes way too early, and making it to campus is a struggle. I thought one of my professors was going to be a stickler about it and dock me some points, but I had a talk with him to calm him down.
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No winners last year, the gauntlet is down BrainAcademy, the competition that hands out bursaries to promising computer science students, is kicking off again this summer. Last year the challenge proved too tough for the entrants: no one managed to survive all three elimination rounds to claim the prize.â¦
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James Foley, chairman of the Computing Research Association, says major trouble stalks the nation's technology education pipeline.
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Greg Cronin offered anger. He offered disappointment. He offered apologies. After the sky-high expectations of his Northeastern hockey team were shattered in a flurry of goals in the first seven minutes of last night's opening Beanpot game against Harvard, the Huskies coach offered the awful truth.
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By Timothy C. Barmann, The Providence Journal, R.I.  Feb. 25--PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The man who guided Apple Computer through  its early glory years offered a group of Brown University entrepreneurs some  advice, and anecdotes, and even some brutally honest self-criticism.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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He thought everything would be fine. He thought it wouldn't be long before he'd be back on the football field. He even expressed the faint hope that he'd suit up for Boston College's Sept. 11 home opener against Penn State.
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Underperforming colleges face a tough new intervention regime under plans outlined by the education secretary.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials have tapped an outsider, David C. Schmittlein, deputy dean of the elite Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, to lead MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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Advisers had counseled Seung-Hui Cho against going to a large university because of concerns he would be unable to communicate and function socially, a student who survived the Virginia Tech rampage said Wednesday.
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Strolling between classes at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Blake Ross looks like any other bleary-eyed sophomore. Few would guess that the laptop-carrying
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Engineering is among graduate fields with decline in new enrollment, a trend raising questions about U.S. tech leadership.
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Some of the direst noises about our nationâs scientific prospects may be premature; students seem to be embracing challenging science courses.
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At times this season, Boston University has struggled to score. During a fair number of games early on, the team got subpar goaltending. And don't even ask coach Jack Parker why the Terriers have had a difficult time winning at home.
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High stress levels make students less able to deal with complex exam questions, research suggests.