They have classes at stupid times. I'm pretty sure even when she was in San Francisco Jade was having classes at like 10pm.
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Honestly wtf that is such a scam hahahahaha I know everyone is different etc etc but generally its shown people perform best earlier in the day. Also you get the best sleep before midnight so why is an educational institution having 10pm classes that won't finish before 11pm at the earliest???
I may be speaking as a complete morning person here (I go to bed at like 9pm)but honestly that's the most stupid thing I've heard about anything that seeks to call the self an educational institution.
I think their professors are based worldwide? Idk who mentioned that but I think it was in one of Dinara's videos. So they have classes at really odd times. But that just shows how 
quirky and special Minerva is! Not like those standard universities who provide a boring and unpersonalschedule for its students!
quirky and special Minerva is! Not like those standard universities who provide a boring and unpersonalschedule for its students!Their timetable is just soI think their professors are based worldwide? Idk who mentioned that but I think it was in one of Dinara's videos. So they have classes at really odd times. But that just shows how
spontaneous guys!I have a feeling Jade is trying to mask just how much she misses home when she goes away. I get new places are exciting and it’s fun to travel and move away, but at the same time I have a feeling Jade also misses her family a lot, and while she says she loves being ‘honest’ with her audience, I can imagine her getting really down and upset.
I bet its as all the lecturers are people who work at other (real) universities but with precarious contracts so they need to pick up other work, hence the weird hours
I don't know if you've guys have looked at their staff but there's a list here: https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/people/
I remember we discussed it on GG, a lot of these people don't seem to have actual teaching experience
Also, there are a LOT of people asking about them on Reddit and there's some 'interesting' discussions in which some of these Minerva students join in.
(sorry don't know how to link the specific comment but it's by Fhardervig)
From a really brief look they do have a lot of professors with impressive backgrounds (PhDs from Stanford, Cambridge, Brown, etc). I can only guess they are being paid a large salary, because it's just bizarre to me why someone who invested so much time in academia would want to work at a university where they can't actually conduct any research. Like their positions are obviously 100% teaching, which is not really what a professor role is meant to entail. That's a big thing that bothers me about Minerva - why would you want to attend an institution where there is no active research happening there? I just saw that the Minerva CEO said in this interview that "we don’t subsidize professor research with undergraduate tuition — a feature unique to American and Australian higher education and absent anywhere else in the world"... which is a pretty brainless comment to make, considering Minerva doesn't actually produce any research, so duh, you can't subsidise research that doesn't exist.
Lol at that Reddit comment... it's just the same old delusions parroted by other Minerva students just with more word vomit. According to this genius, having initiative is unique to Minerva students, and only Minerva students have ever run a student club, done volunteer work, or started a company while they're young. Considering how much they talk about how Minerva exposes you to different cultures and different people, apparently all of them have never spoken to a student at a traditional university because they just seem to make up weird false narratives about what happens at traditional unis to feed their superiority complex. It was good to see the person who replied to them bring them back down to earth a bit though haha.
edit: just wanted to add that using surplus from tuition fees to fund research is not unique to America and Australia, it's also done in the UK. there's questions as to how fair this is, but Minerva's model still doesn't provide a solution the issue of how university research should be funded... because they don't do any research lol
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From how much the students are praised I imagine they would be nightmare employees when they graduate, assuming they are above everyone and refusing to do work they believe is "beneath" them
They're basically getting a degree in high-intensity immersive neoliberalism, and their certificate is the six figure price tag. I love the system!
Personal highlight is that he figures he'll be "as well off as at another top american uni" despite the fact he'll have done zero grad classes, will have no lab experience, and gaps in background knowledge. (Minerva's courses in the sciences look very narrow and not at all suited to someone looking to do research) Delusional to put it nicely.
What I found interesting is that they (not sure if it's the Reddit post I linked or another I read) admit that the teaching is basically crap and they have to learn some of the more specific topics themselves without any/much input from their lecturers. At that point, you may as well travel the world on your own and stay in nice hotels/airbnbs with a couple of friends while self-teaching yourself the subjects you're interested in. Though of course, that doesn't actually get you a degree.
Actually it is just for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the memorial's full name is The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal fuer die ermordeten Juden Europas). There are separate memorials for Sinti and the Roma victims; LGBTQ+ people; Disabled victims; and for the other victims of the Holocaust as well.emm said:
I do think it's weird she just referred to it euphemistically as the "Jewish Memorial" though, either call it by its proper name or just say Holocaust Memorial??
this isn't actually true - the memorial she's talking about is actually called the 'Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' so it is just a jewish memorial which maybe be why she phrased it as she did. but i do agree i found the way she spoke about it a bit vague and surface level - although it could just be that she doesn't feel sufficiently educated to speak extensively on the topic, which is fair enough.
EDIT: sorry just saw @raiment posted the same thing above!
Wow she really has just followed her dads footsteps from MLM into another cult like organisation.
Charging £700 for a shared room with two other people should be criminal
Charging £700 for a shared room with two other people should be criminal
How is Jade supposed to use her lovely affiliate link vibrator that teenage girls across the world are thanking her for with two other people in her flat?!
timeahhh sorry i wasn't aware of this! thank you both for pointing it out . i feel like ive learned more than a year in minerva would've taught me already
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