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#1019 MIT's decision not to divest should make it clear to everyone that this place of learning that everyone talks so big about is not run by the very intelligent scientists who work here, but rather by business and corporate minded people, who only $ee dollar$.
#1018 6.170, high school called and it wants its busywork back >.>
#1017 I am amazed by the fact that I'm still breathing. I work so hard that I wanna cry.
#1016 I had the best argument to have with people you just met. I was introduced at dinner to a friend of a friend. And this guy went on and on about humans effect on the planet and how every person excreted x kilos of CO2 a day hurting the planet, and how we were pushing earth, making us sound like a disease. So I asked him if he thought most humans were harming the planet by breeding and using resources. He delightedly said yes. I asked him if earth would be better without us. Eagerly, he also said yes. Then I slid him a knife from the other side of the table. I told him, "Since we are all hunks of trash hurting this planet, that includes you, since you are so passionate, lead us by example, by committing suicide right now and saving the planet from your harmful effects". He stammered at me baffled by the thought. I then let him in on the truth. People like him who go on about how humans are so bad for the planet think they are better then everyone else. They want other people to have to make sacrifices, not themselves. Needless to say he left dinner. I can be a little rough with new people.
#1113 Here's a little hint for employers. When you set up a student with a phone screen, try not to use someone with a thick foreign accent who can barely speak English. You don't see me going to India and trying to recruit students with some garbled dialect in an American accent.
#1112 I would like to know if professors read MIT Confessions.
#1111 The social media I use the most is Piazza
#1110 Has anyone else noticed that the people who are the most obnoxious about social justice issues often seem to be among the less functional people on campus? It seems its a way to externalize their own failures, because why not try to blame society for all your issues.