Ta-Nehisi Coates on teaching and writing at MIT

[molliebatmit]

<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic has apparently been teaching at MIT this past year, and his description of MIT students really rang true to me. Does anybody know what he's teaching? I am too jealous for words -- I love his work, and he must be so great as a professor.</p>

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@Ta-Nehisi Coates

The first thing I should say is that the kids at MIT are, I think, different than most. Even among students from the highly competitive schools they seem a little different. We live in a world that valorizes "intelligence," "talent," and "ideas." (The obsession in journalism with the counter-intuitive springs from this.) What I found at MIT was something a little different. They were plenty smart, but they weren't particularly enamored with that fact. And more than being smart, they were tough.

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<p>Notes</a> From the First Year: Some Thoughts on Teaching at MIT - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic</p>

[UMTYMP_student]

<p>It appears he taught 21W.735 Writing and Reading the Essay and 21W.745 Advanced Essay Workshop last year (2012-13) and is teaching 21W.735 and 21W.743 Voice and Meaning: Speaking to Readers through Memoir, Fact, and Fiction this fall.</p>