[1445] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: A new ballgame at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hafer)
Mon Sep 15 21:36:05 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:14:04 -0400
From: Will Hafer <williamh@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200309160036.h8G0a9Lh001042@all-night-tool.mit.edu>
I guess you're right, Wally...some things about MIT will apparently never
change.
At 08:36 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, Victoria K Anderson wrote:
>Actually, I figured it out. Given that students must spend some of their
>time on non-academic pursuits, MIT wants these pursuits to be moderately
>productive. In other words, they want more students who spend their
>non-tooling
>time in things like sports than students who spend their non-tooling time
>writing long-winded emails to discussion lists and stalking people over
>zephyr. If it is possible that the academic capabilities of the two groups
>are roughly comperable, and I think that they probably are, of course they
>want more athletes.
>
>Damnit, there goes the promise that "even though I'm a student again, I
>don't care about ANYTHING."
>
>-Victoria
>
>
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