I went to MIT many years ago. It was hard. I survived, many didn't. As a perk to alumni I get a free subscription to Technology Review, MIT's monthly magazine of science and engineering. Over the last decade the content has gotten more and more leftist/feminist. Reading it today one could be convinced 80% of all science and engineering advances are done by women. I guess things are different now than in my day. All content is totally politicalized. No amount of praise for Obama or global warming theories is ever enough. This month I'm greeted by the linked article. The author writes she works in admissions. The thought of the likes of her having anything to do with deciding who is admitted pretty much says it all. I guess even a once great institution is not immune, but they'll have to get by without me.
I should have listened. Why on why didn’t I listen.
That thing isn’t overcompensating TOO much, is she?
Massachusetts will ruin MIT.
After all, they’ve given us the Kennedy collection of mentally challenged idiots, Kerry, Fauxahauntis, etc.
Liberals ruin anything and everything they touch.
Science is hard to ruin, but libs already have taken a bodacious Dorkbama on climate research.
Worse coming.
Eye bleach? Nah. She's got powerful sexmachine thighs.
And a borderline-cute face.
It’s sad to hear about such a decline at MIT. It has produced many amazing scientists and engineers. I’d guess that things are even worse at CalTech.
We are in a very bad place with regard to education, critical thinking, and STEM graduates. China has its share of problems, but PC culture and the leftist “emotions are more important than facts” approach are not among them. I understand that China is making rapid gains in producing high quality STEM graduates. America can’t afford complacency and/or stupidity.
I can only hope that the MAGA movement will eventually move the pendulum back to sanity, objectivity, and logic being the dominant approaches to thought.
I’m a grad as well. Course 5. 1978.
Embarrassing. Thank goodness some good work is still done there.
Institutes of higher learning need to get back into the business of higher learning.
Having an SJW in admissions will give us a few more years before Skynet is turned on.
The author is an MIT humanities major and a blogger for admissions (don't ask me why either one is worth having at MIT!), not an actual admissions officer. I know all of their admissions officers, and none of them are obviously freaks or agenda-driven leftists.
nothing more
college kids getting laid
ya .... so ?
While an undergrad at *another* Boston college we were offered a few free courses at MIT; I took a math course. About killed me; but the power of prayer helped me pass.
I can’t imagine how rigorous the rest of the curriculum was.
One great thing, MIT offered lectures and invited other schools to attend. I recall the electrifying debates that Billy Graham had with Berkeley activist Mario Salvio. Rev. Graham chewed him up and spit him out; Salvio didn’t know what hit him. Heh.
I must credit Rev. Graham [from those debates]with being the tipping point in my life to ever embracing a liberal philosophy. God Bless his soul.
Wonder how they got the wig to stay on that pig.
OMG you are not kidding!!!!
Lena Dunham and Betty Boop.
could MIT undergrads really be that desperate?.....
I’ve seen those, sometimes with harpoon still attached