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Re: Legos get you into college
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:32:56 GMT
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John A. Hern Jr <hern@nidlink^Spamless^.com>
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HERN@NIDLINK.nomorespamCOM
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Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are
doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want
to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how
well he could assemble legos?
John.
Jonathan Knudsen wrote:
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> Colorado College is instituting a Lego building entrance
> examination. I'm not making this up.
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> Jonathan
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> -----
> Lego Mindstorms Robots : http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lmstorms/
> Minerva 1.5 :
>
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| John A. Hern Jr writes: > Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are > doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want > to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how > well (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Legos get you into college
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| (...) Getting into medical school is quite different from getting through it. I couldn't care less how my doctor got in, as long as he has to get through it to the usual standards, and pass the same exams as everyone else. (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Legos get you into college
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| It's not exactly Mindstorms-related, but pretty interesting: (URL) College is instituting a Lego building entrance examination. I'm not making this up. Jonathan ----- Lego Mindstorms Robots : (URL) 1.5 : (URL) 2D Graphics : (URL) Java : (URL) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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