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Originally posted by Pete Pan:
It is an excelent school, but I would never send my kids there. I feel they need a school where they would become more well rounded (Standford is a good example). Technology is only part of the job, people skills count for a lot too.
Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
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Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
I strongly disagree with your implied statement that MIT does not produce well rounded individuals. 25% of the classes taken by undergrads must be in humanities. Our school of management is one of the top in the country. Out economics program is also considered one of the best, if not the best. When I was an undergrad, our political science dept was ranked seventh in the country. Our urban studies in planning was also in the top ten. We also have a world class linguistics and philosophy department. MIT also has the largest sports program of any university, offering more varisty and JV teams than any other school in the country. Then there's clubs and social life, but that's hard to quantify.
Pete, did you go to MIT, Stanford, or both (or neither)?
--Mark
hershey@vaultus.com
PS I posted this a couple days ago, but it got lost whne the server went down, the W3C is located at MIT. I used to work down the hall from them.
-Nate
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Originally posted by Pete Pan:
BS Rutgers (I was in the engineering school)
MS Georgia Tech
PhD Princeton
live in Boston now.
You will never meet a Dance major or a Film Major or an English Major (may be wrong about this one) at MIT. There might be a film class or two, but since no one in the class is magoring in the area, it is still treated like a 2nd level class. How many MIT people have ever said "I blew off that Calc III final because my film professor was showing the latest french flick".
At GT I think the o of Male to Female was 4-1 undergrad when I was there and the poor guys didn't know how to talk to a girl. I ended up working at a place that 50% of the people were from MIT (100+ engineers), and I would have to say that on average their social skills were below average.
Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/
Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
Yeah, MIT is a little unusual in that our undergraduate ratio is 50%-50% (+/- 2%). One of the things I learned at MIT is not to jump to conclusions. You know about 50 people from MIT who are dorks, so you conclude MIT must be the cause. I would have to wonder if maybe it's your company that attracts the dorks, and simply that people with social skills, from any school, don't take jobs there. You didn't seem to account for these other factors. (I'm not really saying I think you, or your company, necessarily does this, I'm just trying to make a point.)
--Mark
hershey@vaultus.com
[This message has been edited by Mark Herschberg (edited April 11, 2001).]