Meeting President Reif

 (my last “BeyoniMeeting…” post was back in Nov 2012 already…2 YEARS AGO!! shame…)

Meeting our current MIT President for the first time! Some key takeaways from the evening:

• Love his Pope-like handshake and eye contact: very genuine, warm and strong. First he shook my hand powerfully, then he gently placed his left hand on my hand..(Urgh I hope you get what I mean). Whoa…..
• On asset allocation among undergrad & grad students: of course the undergrads win! MIT spend around $70,000-$80,000 USD per undergrad, while only 10% to 11% undergrads are paying the full tuition fee $44,000 USD. So not many ppl know that their education is in fact subsidized by the school.
• On edX & MIT OpenCourseWare: a 17-year old high school student in India got 97% in 6.002x (Circuits & Electronics) on edX, our MOOC platform. He really wanted to continue to take 6.003 (Signals & Systems), but the class is not offered on edX yet. He then studied 6.003 on MIT OpenCourseWare, our web-based publications of almost ALL MIT class materials, and started his own MOOC 6.003z!

Also in the series:
Meetng Th0mas Heatherw!ck
Meeting Kenichi Ohmae
Meeting Steven Chu
Meeting Bill Gates
Meeting Al Gore
Meeting Barack Obama
Meeting Solow x Diamond x Mankiw
Meeting Noam Chomsky
Meeting  Russell Peters
Meeting Bow Tie