And Minerva students and graduates I spoke to said that the school indeed gave them something — maturity, initiative, ingenuity and, ultimately, confidence — in return for what they sacrificed. She feels small, she explained, because the world feels so very inexhaustibly big. And Minerva has carefully considered and tried to address the pitfalls of online education. But Minerva students have one another for counsel, company and community, and several told me that a classmate taking the same seminar that you are might be doing so on a laptop set up next to yours. There might be three or four of you huddled together, although not this coming semester, when Minerva will exhort students to observe social distancing in their residences.

Source: International New York Times August 01, 2020 18:30 UTC