Aaron Bornstein

Aaron Bornstein

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A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 21, 1999

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April 23, 1999, on Tuition-free MIT:

Excellent argument. Allow me to relate my current situation; I think it will serve as a useful corollary to the above.

I am an MIT freshman who is currently faced with a rather disturbing dilemma. I have the opportunity of taking a research position at the Media Lab, which would provide me a fairly large degree of freedom as well as combining two areas of computer science which I have a great deal of interest in.

Competing with this offer is a position at a commercial software company, offering somewhat less desirable circumstances from an intellectual perspective. Based simply on the merits of the work involved, I would most likely decide on the Media Lab. The commercial software company, however, has offered me a full five times the maximum salary the Media Lab is allowed to pay me, not including overtime and other material benefits. (The Media Lab is only allowed to pay undergrads for 40 hours/week of work. As anyone...