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Once upon a time, a young physics concentrator with a penchant for cakes and a talented artist with a smile as big as his tower of hair flew to Paris on a mission to unveil inhalable chocolate to the world. By day they scoured the finest boutiques in Paris for...
Chu, who won a Nobel prize in 1997 for his work on cooling atoms with laser lights, comes from a family of academic high achievers—both parents attended M.I.T. and his brothers hold degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School.
But an Ivy League education seemed to elude the once self-described academic black sheep of the family. Citing his “relatively lackluster A-average” grades as a reason for the rejection letters received in his senior year of high school, Chu later wrote, ?...
MEFA, a non-profit, self-financed state authority, will provide loans for the 2009-2010 academic year for undergraduate students at a fixed 7.75 percent interest rate. The graduate student loans interest rate is higher at 8.89 percent.
According to MEFA spokeswoman Jessica L. Belt, the authority was unable to provide student loans last year because it could not raise enough money until September of 2008, when it was too late for the 2008-2009 academic year.