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The point (don't remember which of the 10) of "wow your proposed courses are a lot harder than when I did undergrad" combined with "hahahaha my problem sets are
by AtlasBarfed 4y ago
The point (don't remember which of the 10) of "wow your proposed courses are a lot harder than when I did undergrad" combined with "hahahaha my problem sets are so hard they turn into papers" portrays MIT as some exponentially increasing hazing.
OF COURSE this boomer had more opportunity, less stress, lower tuition, and now self-congratulates himself for abusing the next generation.
And OF COURSE his conclusion is "major in my major (math)", even though he explains elsewhere how unable MIT grads are at dealing with the "real world". Because he's a narcissistic boomer living in an ivory tower built after WW2 had burned down all the other ivory towers.
- jonjacky 4y agoTo clarify the chronology and background here: Rota was born in 1932, and starting teaching at MIT in 1959. He died in 1999. Rota was not a boomer; he taught the boomers (and the succeeding generation). The students he is talking about here are the young boomers-to-be. This page is dated 1997 but it reads like a reprint of something written much earlier. I was an undergraduate at Caltech in 1968-72 and this sounds similar to the faculty, students, and workload there at that time. Regarding WW2, Rota was a child in Italy during the war until his family fled in 1945 to escape the fascists. He reached the US in 1950 via Switzerland and Ecuador [1]. Not really a pampered boomer upbringing. 1. http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N21/21rota.21n.html http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N21/21rota.21n.html
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Rota was not a boomer; he taught the boomers (and the succeeding generation) And the preceding one (if he started teaching at MIT in '59, Boomers were still in their early teens at most.)