[Off-topic] something to keep your computer busy

[melissa \'01]

really? thanks. didn't know that. well. let's make that "one MIT student" then.

[melissa \'01]

or wait. maybe i simply have the wrong adam. cause i'm guessing that the adam i'm referring to didn't go to MIT. He's a stage director (i think) in syracuse.....am thinking that MIT'ers don't go in that direction. can anyone help me?? what's the deal yo?  ::help:: :-P

[jeh25]

Same Adam.  What makes you think a degree in mechanical engineering for MIT means you can't be a stage manager for $0.17 an hour? :-P

[melissa \'01]

ouch! play nice! i guess i just wasn't thinking about the type of degree. was thinking more along the lines of a theatre arts degree and was unsure about MIT's offerings in this area. Mind you, I know very little about MIT other than its a tech school.

SO, outta curiosity, do they issue any liberal arts degrees? do they have theatresque classes?

[DeltaOne81]

Pardon this interruption...

I hearby end my vain attempts to focus this thread by announcing the introduction of http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/fct2/foldingnews.html

If any of you on the team want to hear what I have to say about it, or if any of you want more information on the team, you can read there from now on, since this thread'll have to die eventually (all threads go to heaven :-)) ).

Now back to your regularly scheduled Harvard (MIT?) bashing...

-Fred

[CowbellGuy]

Much to John's relief, I officially declare this week "Give Adam Shit Week". Much to Adam's relief, it's already Friday.

Adam probably hasn't defended himself because his hair has completely obscured his vision by now, but apparently MIT has a single "I'm an awful engineer but I don't want to leave this hell" arts major.

[jeh25]

For those that don't get the joke, Adam and Age used to declare that: "Today is give John shit day. *Everyday* is give John shit day."

And for the record, MIT refers to their majors as Course X where X is the number of the major. (Silly enginerds. Talking to an MIT student about their courses is rather surreal. It goes something like this:

"Yeah, I punted my 2.161 problem set last night."

And everyone knows exactly what that means....

And yes, MIT has Course 21 - Humanities - for people that don't want to be engineers or scientist types. To be fair, Econ, PoliSci and Management also get their own numbers.

[Al DeFlorio]

MIT's been known to have a few pretty good economists on their faculty.

[jeh25]

Al DeFlorio wrote:

MIT's been known to have a few pretty good economists on their faculty.

Very true. But in the end, isn't Econ really just math pretending to be a social science?

[Al DeFlorio]

Dunno.  Harry Truman was always looking for a one-handed economist.;-)