10 Lessons of an MIT Education-by Gian-Carlo Rota

10 Lessons of an MIT Education

Gian-Carlo Rota

1. You can and will work at a desk for seven hours straight, routinely.
2. You learn what you don't know you are learning.
3. By and large, "knowing how" matters more than "knowing what."
4. In science and engineering, you can fool very little of the time.
5. You don't have to be a genius to do creative work.
6. You must measure up to a very high level of performance.
7. The world and your career are unpredictable, so you are better off learning subjects of permanent value.
8. You are never going to catch up, and neither is anyone else.
9. The future belongs to the computer-literate-squared.
10. Mathematics is still the queen of the sciences.

(From:http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html)