[885] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Marilee Jones (Dean of Admissions) on the New Improved MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (emilie)
Thu Oct 4 14:25:46 2001
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 03:28:55 -0400
Reply-To: "Documentation at http://web.mit.edu/beland/talk/talk.html"
<MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU>, emilie <emilie@MIT.EDU>
From: emilie <emilie@MIT.EDU>
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here are some gems, all from the section of the article entitled "what
they need from us":
Remember that most adults in their lives cave in to them easily,
so they will push back hard. Stand firm through all of their
excuses and whining. Eventually they will realize that you mean
business and they'll comply because Millennials generally want to
obey the rules.
* They need to be involved in decision making, but they need for us
to make the final decisions. We Boomers in particular have a
tendency toward consensus even when consensus is inappropriate.
They don't want us to be friends. They want us to lead.
i feel so ashamed to be a student here sometimes...
emilie
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Andrew Brooks wrote:
> Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:04:14 -0400. The day of cleansing had come. Swallowing
> the child's eyeball for luck, tibbetts@MIT.EDU readied the carbine and
> ran into the church, emitting this hideous shriek:
> |> listing the top reasons why admitted MIT applicants chose to enroll
> |> elsewhere. Last year, for the first time, housing and the quality of
> |> the campus, was the #3 reason why the students we worked so hard to
> |> admit went to other schools. This year, the quality of student life,
> |> which includes housing and campus issues, was #2 on that list.
>
> This is my favourite part of the document. Only someone with the
> mentality of an MIT administrator would read "quality of student life" as
> 'dissatisfaction with housing choice'. I'm truly sure that the
> possibility didn't even cross her mind that student life (not including
> housing) on this campus is indeed at an all-time low as a direct result of
> the actions of administrators like her, and that the brilliant students
> (whom she consistently and condescendingly refers to as "kids" throughout
> the piece) that receive an offer to attend MIT are more than smart enough
> to realise this from their first impressions. One wonders which came
> first, the chicken of this nauseating example of armchair sociology or the
> egg of the highly questionable decisions it appears to justify?
>
> Zoz
>
