[1446] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: A new ballgame at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Roberts)
Mon Sep 15 23:02:57 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:40:34 -0400
From: Jeff Roberts <thejoker@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200309160036.h8G0a9Lh001042@all-night-tool.mit.edu>
Welcome back, Victoria!
I think the time has finally come to change the name of this list to
crusty-talk@mit.edu. Seriously. Why do we all still care about this
shit? It's not like alums at other schools still yammer on years after
they graduate about what's best for their undergrads.
Jeff Roberts
UA-poseur type
Jobless
P.S. Victoria, you need to come check out the new all-MIT-affiliates house
I'm living in in Cambridgeport. Yeah, we've started another one.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, 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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