[1451] in Humor
HUMOR: The Course 6 View of Life
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed May 22 15:38:15 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:28:59 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Clues for the clueless: Departments are referred to by their number at
MIT. A key is at the end.
-Drew
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:53:07 EDT
From: --- <jerrod@MIT.EDU>
From: Gregory Harman <gharman@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Course 6
Sorry, a little nerd humor.
Course 1C - Builds roads and bridges to transport computers
Course 1E - Grows forests to cut down & burn in order to power computers
Course 2 - Builds trucks to transport computers
Course 3 - Develops chemicalcompounds for electronic components
Course 4 - Creates nice buildings in which to store and use computers
Course 5 - Creates new plastics with which to make computer cases
Course 6 - Life
Course 7 - Developing a new medium in which to build computers
Course 8 - Developing new principles of electronics to help reduce the size
& increase power of computers
Course 9 - Developing techniques for AI
Course 10 - See Course 5
Course 11 - Helps plan out the best routes to get from one computer to the next
Course 12 - Maintain a comfortable environment for computer operation
Course 13 - Builds boats to transport computers overseas
Course 14 - Studies the prices/market value, etc. of computers
Course 15 - Advertise & sell computers
Course 16 - Build airplanes to transport computers
Course 17 - Different countries always trying to steal the computers of
their neighbors...
Course 18 - Computers are based on mathmatical algorithms.
Course 21 - Write about (or compose music about, art about, etc.) computers
Course 22 - Nuclear power - computer power of the future
Course 24 - Philosophize about computers and their integration into life
(see Course 6)
Key:
1 = Civil Engineering
2 = Mechanical Engineering
3 = Materials Science
4 = Architecture
5 = Chemistry
6 = EECS
7 = Biology
8 = Physics
9 = Brain and Cognitive Science
10 = Chemical Engineering
11 = Urban Studies and Planning
12 = Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
13 = Ocean Engineering
14 = Economics
15 = Business
16 = Aero/Astro Engineering
17 = Political Science
18 = Math
21 = Humanities (all of most other schools is lumped into here)
22 = Nuclear Engineering
24 = Philosophy and Linguistics
Defunct Departments:
(19 = Sanitation Engineering)
(19 = Meterology)
(20 = Toxicology and Food Science - aka "Applied Biology" or "Fruits and Nuts")
(?? = Mining)
(Others I can no longer recall)
