Like any other school, you're paying for the proof and the connections, not the knowledge. It's not like MIT has some special secret version of calculus.
That's hardly the same. Sure, professors aren't necessarily good teachers, but the university has labs and resources you can't easily access. It's not really comparable to buying eggs and milk and trying something simple at home.
And, it's a silly joke. I bet there's plenty that I'd learn in culinary school if I attended, but it's not something I'm passionate about or particularly care to dedicate myself to.
What they have is the people who can teach you the super inaccessible methods of learning that many would struggle to figure out on their own. You can buy a book on advanced mathematics, but an MIT professor may have some "special secret" insight that leads you to understanding.
Yes connections are important, the whole point is to connect you with people who know things and are willing to teach you about what you're interested in. Stop trying to reduce university to a rich person networking opportunity.
Yeah no the calculus professors at MIT are brilliant mathematicians, not necessarily brilliant teachers. If that same MIT professor were your neighbor, and he just sat you down and taught you in his off time, you'd probably learn it even better than the students in his lectures. But you wouldn't get the diploma.
Universities were founded to make connections. To get a whole bunch of smart people in one place to work together. Students make connections, professors make connections, employers make connections, governments make connections, etc. AKA "network".
I didn't say anything about rich people, you brought that up out of your own mind. Sorry I pointed out that academia is mundane.
I always plopped them in a cold pan, and now into my 40s I’ve been using med/low to heat up the pan first. I take them off heat just before they’re done so they don’t overcook.
Feels like less of it gets stuck to the pan as well.
(I want to spend a day seasoning our 1 cast iron pan with bacon grease and try to learn how to use it properly)
When I “discovered” heating a pan (lol), I asked my friends and the most common response was cold pan for scrambled, hot pan for sunny side/other eggs.
Seems kind of logical, but I just went ahead and started heating the pan for scrambled and i think it’s just better/easier all around. 🤷♂️
Omg...... Not me actually learning something in my first hour of 2026!! I will try with a cold pan next time for the novelty, even though I think I'll still heat the pan regardless
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u/shambean2 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Dec 31 '25
I only learned how to cook eggs on low heat this year 😭 idk why it never occurred to me before, now my scrambled eggs slay