Anon Again

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• October 13, 2003, on Tuition-free MIT:

  When I last checked in the Wall Street Journal, one of the interesting things about Harvard was that its endowment was sufficient that it could go forward without charging any of its students tuition. Interestingly enough, it continues to do so, for reasons more related to excluding people of the wrong class than any other I can see. | I should also note that at the last prep school briefing a partner of mine attended, he was told that his son's chances went from 100% auto admit at Brown to only a 40% chance if they discovered the kid was pre-med. Much of prep school seems oriented around the concept of hiding the fact that a student is pre-med. | Interesting, especially with the MIT students that are going into med school.

• October 13, 2003, on Sites That Don't Work (And How to Fix Them):

  In reading: [quote] No Dead Links The BooHoo system works its way through the links every night or two. If a link is unreachable, its status goes from "live" to "coma." If it had already been marked "coma" by a previous sweep, it is marked "dead" and an e-mail notification is sent to the person who posted it. Dead links are no longer displayed to users. When the sweep gets to a link that is already marked "dead," it is either restored to "live" status (if the server has come back) or removed from the database (actually there is an administrative command to "really remove" the dead links and/or restore them all to "live" status; this ensures that all of your links are not lost if my server or the entire Internet has a few "bad hair days"). [/quote] I was forcefully reminded of what happened when I clicked on the "webho" links you had -- I was sent to a "buy this domain" link with pop-ups, etc. Yes, there is still something there that keeps BooHoo from changing it into a dead...