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This is a motley list. I am guessing the criteria for inclusion was an administration staffer (or their offspring) was not able to secure admission.
by runako 1y ago
This is a motley list. I am guessing the criteria for inclusion was an administration staffer (or their offspring) was not able to secure admission.
- bee_rider 1y agoFor anyone confused like me, a definition of motley is “Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous.” I think a lot of the neural connections to the word motley come from the expression “motley crew” which has fairly negative connotations. But the truth of the matter is, this is just a very varied group of schools; some great schools on the list. I won’t say any of the schools are not great, because of course some alum will come along and say “actually we had a great department for some niche computational thing” and I’ll be embarrassed to not have known that.
- runako 1y agoI meant it in the sense of heterogeneous. The list includes public & private institutions across a variety of states and size ranges. It singles out particular institutions in state university systems (e.g. University of Texas at Austin but not Texas A&M or University of Texas at El Paso). Half the list is in the northeast, while the midwest and Pacific Northwest are not represented. It's 9 institutions, not 10. It's just an odd list.
- bee_rider 1y agoI 100% agree!
- TheCondor 1y agoThat's a very favorable interpretation. It looks an awful lot like a sampling designed to identify who the "enemies" are.
- justin66 1y agoI was thinking it was a rare display of caution on the part of otherwise careless idiots. (or maybe we just got lucky) They aren't fucking with any of the universities responsible for managing national laboratories.
- pastel8739 1y agoMIT has Lincoln Lab which, while not a DoE national lab, serves a pretty similar purpose for DoD.