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I don't know about the army/marines analogy but I know that "IHTFP" would not have taken hold on Stanford campus :)
by pvdm 16y ago
I don't know about the army/marines analogy but I know that "IHTFP" would not have taken hold on Stanford campus :)
- hga 16y agoWhat about the Institute Screw Contest: http://www.mit.edu/~apo/big-screw/ http://www.mit.edu/~apo/big-screw/ ? Note that while participants/targets have to agree to be in it, it is generally rewarded for poor preformance of one sort or another, e.g.: 1989 Gerald Sussman: for a really bad 6.002 term he taught. 1985 Shirley M. McBay: amazingly bad Dean for Student affairs. 1971 Ken Browning: Also a legendary Dean for Student affairs; a parody issue of the student newspaper was entirely dedicated to him. Although I don't know if he was indeed really bad, my only solid first hand info is from a member of a failing residential fraternity chapter.
- pvdm 16y agoThought about it some more, seems if you want to use the arm forces analogy, MIT is more like Navy Seals Hell Week :) Tough while you're going thru it, but the friendships last a lifetime.