Archive for November, 2008

MIT and Honorary Degrees

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Frank Field raised an interesting piece of MIT trivia today that i was not aware of — MIT does not confer honorary degrees. An interesting quotation from the MIT News Office: When Charles M. Vest, then provost of the University of Michigan, was offered the job of president of MIT in 1990, he met with [...]

Note to self

Friday, 21 November 2008

I think I might blog more if I didn’t feel so bad about smaller posts: see format of Daring Fireball.