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>They're basically a bunch of BU/small liberal arts college grad professional administrators of colleges running the institute into the ground. Your arrogance

by Permit 14y ago

>They're basically a bunch of BU/small liberal arts college grad professional administrators of colleges running the institute into the ground. Your arrogance is truly breathtaking. I can't believe people shit on other's majors and college choices like this.

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VexXtreme 14y ago
And your lack of ability to understand what was written is even more breathtaking. The man's point was that it is not suitable for a technical institution like that to be managed and administered by non-technical people. There are a number of reasons for that but the main one is that they lack the expertise needed to run such a place and can't fully appreciate the culture of hacking that many such institutes were built upon. Same goes for companies. The most successful software companies out there are those run by engineers. Think Google. When "business people" take over, things often have a way of turning for worse. I've seen it time and again.
- seivan 14y ago
  I agree, been saying that for a long time. You can't have "business people" running companies that run on software.
- Permit 14y ago
  He's replying to a comment that said their help line was taken down. That's not a technology problem, and I fail to see how an engineer or computer science grad would have better tackled that issue.
seivan 14y ago
Way to go to miss the point completely. Stupidity is also breathtaking, reading comprehension might help.
rdl 14y ago
I think people are better at running the schools they themselves attended. MIT grads would be better running MIT than non-MIT grads; MIT grads, however, would be horrible at running small liberal arts colleges. (the idea is probably a MIT undergrad or grad student who then goes to another school or business for some kind of management experience, then eventually returns to MIT, like some of the best administrators; or, a professor who also does admin functions. Professional administrators have grown in number dramatically faster than enrollment, which is part of why tuition is so high. We don't need ~50 deans.

by Permit 14y ago

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VexXtreme 14y ago

And your lack of ability to understand what was written is even more breathtaking. The man's point was that it is not suitable for a technical institution like that to be managed and administered by non-technical people. There are a number of reasons for that but the main one is that they lack the expertise needed to run such a place and can't fully appreciate the culture of hacking that many such institutes were built upon. Same goes for companies. The most successful software companies out there are those run by engineers. Think Google. When "business people" take over, things often have a way of turning for worse. I've seen it time and again.

seivan 14y ago
I agree, been saying that for a long time. You can't have "business people" running companies that run on software.
Permit 14y ago
He's replying to a comment that said their help line was taken down. That's not a technology problem, and I fail to see how an engineer or computer science grad would have better tackled that issue.

seivan 14y ago

Way to go to miss the point completely. Stupidity is also breathtaking, reading comprehension might help.

rdl 14y ago

I think people are better at running the schools they themselves attended. MIT grads would be better running MIT than non-MIT grads; MIT grads, however, would be horrible at running small liberal arts colleges. (the idea is probably a MIT undergrad or grad student who then goes to another school or business for some kind of management experience, then eventually returns to MIT, like some of the best administrators; or, a professor who also does admin functions. Professional administrators have grown in number dramatically faster than enrollment, which is part of why tuition is so high. We don't need ~50 deans.