[278] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Affirmative action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Craighead)
Sat Apr 28 12:08:44 2001
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:12:22 -0400
From: Matt Craighead <craighea@MIT.EDU>
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To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
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Richard Tibbetts wrote:
> - MIT hurts. Currently MIT abuses it students pretty hard. In my
> opinion, much of this abuse is unnecessary. Fixing this is hard
> though, because differentiating between good and bad abuse is hard.
> But before MIT goes and cranks up the difficulty/pace they might
> want to try and cut back on the mental trauma. Not that I would
> object.
I've never been convinced that this is really true. MIT has
consistently underwhelmed me in its difficulty of coursework.
Maybe if MIT tried harder to admit the best students, rather than those
who belong to "disadvantaged" groups, this erroneous perception would go
away. :)
--
Matt Craighead, MIT Class of 2002
President, MIT Objectivist Club
http://web.mit.edu/objectivism/www/
