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...propensity to find jobs in the financial field, it comes as no big surprise that some students are interested in 15.501, Corporate Financial Accounting. But why is it that Harvard students, many of whom are interested in fields other than finance, are only willing to brave the trip to MIT to put accounting on their transcripts...
...Rather, my vexation is with the vast majority of Harvard students who do not even take the time to peruse the MIT course catalog and do not pursue academic interests beyond the gates of Harvard. For science and engineering concentrators this is all but unforgivable. Nobel laureates, inventors, scientists and engineers of all stripes are actively disseminating cutting-edge knowledge to all who will listen just blocks away, and almost everyone here seems to ignore it. Maybe Harvard’s future scientists could use a little more of the pre-professional attitude shared by their financially oriented peers...
...MIT is more than just science and technology courses. From architecture to philosophy, from Asian-American studies to gender studies, there is an incredible diversity of courses offered at MIT. Some courses may closely mirror those at Harvard, but many are unique to MIT. Some are taught in fields Harvard students have been advocating for years to be included at Harvard, yet presumably some of these same students won’t travel down the street to follow their interests. Almost all languish as missed opportunities for Harvard students. Except, of course, for accounting...
...hard to believe that so few Harvard undergraduates even glance at the MIT course catalog, much less sign up for a course. Yes, there is a form to fill out. Yes, the MIT course catalog uses numbers in place of words. Yes, it can take twenty minutes to get to MIT. Yes, the MIT semester starts a few days earlier. And yes, there are literally thousands of courses offered in the Faculty of Arts of Sciences alone each semester. But none of these barriers are sufficiently high or compelling enough to forestall a student’s desire to learn?...
...Samuel H. Lipoff ‘04 is a graduate student at MIT and resident tutor in chemistry at Cabot House. He cross-registered for two MIT courses while a Harvard undergraduate...