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All joking aside, CMU does very much have a problem with promoting and fetishizing a culture of stress. I only have anecdotal evidence of this, but more so tha
by exogeny 8y ago
All joking aside, CMU does very much have a problem with promoting and fetishizing a culture of stress.
I only have anecdotal evidence of this, but more so than just about anywhere else, CMU as a university prides itself on a very difficult workload and a lot of the solutions that students come up with are extremely unhealthy.
- intrasight 8y agoI have personal experience (EE,CE,AM '88). CMU sucks in terms of student experience - at least then it did. At least the physical plan is far superior now. The place was fugly in the 80s. The teaching was weak. I felt that I was paying for a reputation. And on top of that, in our freshman year they had us all come to an auditorium to tell us this: "Sorry, we have to fail half of you out because there are too many of you. Look to your left and then to your right. Those two students will be gone." Any EE in that class can testify to the truthfulness of what I say.