[15] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
skills (was Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura G Dean)
Thu Apr 19 11:24:05 2001
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:07:57 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:28:23 -0400
From: Laura G Dean <lgdean@MIT.EDU>
Resent-From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:07:57 EDT, Wally wrote:
> This is a *really* pathetic thing for us, as MIT students, to
> say. More 'true and honest' because we've not been instructed in
> social niceties? More 'true and honest' because half of MIT
> couldn't get *other* than an engineering job, owing to those
> mysterious 'people skills' they failed to pick up either before or
Hey, I resemble that remark!
More on this later. (It'll be a response to Zhe's claim that we can
all write email in "a few seconds or minutes." But since I can't,
it'll be more than a few minutes.)
Actually, I'll just put it here: is my lack of social skills related
to the fact that I could not, in fact, write a coherent and
rhetorically-good* email to a president in under, say, two hours?
(And do either of these things make me less worthwhile than you? I
used to think so, but thanks to the wonders of modern medic... oops,
wrong mailing list.)
I ask because I noticed that there are these two qualities that MIT
students seem to be lacking. I can't write well quickly, and I can't
come up with the intelligent socially-ept thing to say quickly either.
Anyone think they might be related? Anyone think I'm completely wrong?
Laura
*yeah, see my command of the English language go! vroom vroom!
p.s. This probably took me about 10-15 minutes.
