Most viral Higher Education questions on Quora
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26.1KTotal upvotes
276.3KVirality score
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Is the IIM or IIT tag really needed for being successful in life?
My younger brother, Aakash has always been an impatient coder. He would make computerized versions of many Chess type games like Camelot and all during his s…
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What is the most useful life hack in studying?
Studying smart can save hundred hours of studying hard. The question is, how do you study smart?Aim high: apart from every other thing about studying. I woul…
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What are the best moments when your IIT tag helped you?
Saved Me From a Corrupt PolicemanSo I was in Bangalore for my Summer Internship at Arcesium. It was Wednesday, June 22nd 2022. At 11:30 AM my alarm went off…
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What is the saddest truth about toppers?
I have always been a topper right throughout my school days. I scored around 96% in my class 10 board exams and 94% in my class 12 board exams. Got a Perform…
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What is some general advice for a new PhD student?
Some things I wish someone had told me before I started grad school:Understand that, after the first year or so, the PhD is mainly about doing research. So m…
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What's the difference between going to an Oxbridge uni and a normal uni in UK?
I did both, so I guess I am in as good a position as anyone to comment, although in my case it was a while ago. At non-Oxbridge unis there is an awful lot mo…
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What skills should you study at school to become rich?
If you want to be rich, the worst thing you can do in school is studying. Nothing on that syllabus is going to make you millions. The point of high school, e…
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How do individuals without previous research experience get accepted into prestigious PhD programs? Is there a specific method they use to achieve this?
Understand this. There’s only one way students get into prestigious PhD programmes. Especially abroad. They have the necessary profile. No one’s getting into…
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Can I attend Harvard or Oxford lectures if I am not a student? Can I do the same at the university you study or studied in?
The door to the physics department is locked, and is only opened by having the correct key card (tied to our university ID cards) Therefore if you want to to…
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Which college town offers the best experience: Princeton, Harvard (Cambridge), Yale (New Haven), Columbia (New York), Stanford (Palo Alto), or Caltech (Pasadena)?
The question is what kind of experience you consider “the best”.If you’re talking “overall possibilities for life experience”, then Columbia (or NYU) wins ha…
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How come Jason Arday was appointed as a professor?
xkcd covered it pretty well some time ago:As academic (using the term loosely) fields go, “education” seems to be at least a couple of large steps below even…
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Are most colleges really on the same level? For example, is Mississippi State just as good as or slightly behind Harvard? Or is there a much bigger gap between the schools?
Mississippi State grad here. I haven’t been a student at Harvard. Most accredited universities in the US are very good. The professors are qualified (though…
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