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Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club. Wh
by Archio 14y ago
Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club.
Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university.
There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".
- denzil_correa 14y ago> Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? In the recent times, MIT has come under the scanner after Swartz death. Therefore, people are interested in follow ups. > Why is this being posted here? I think this is relevant and hence being posted. It is interesting and people are voting up. I'm not an MIT alumnus and I don't see a reason for "MIT fan club" collusion as you may be referring to.
- rhizome 14y agoI attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? No, but if you're looking for something to post, how about how RPI is basically a CIA farm school and what it's like to experience that as a student? HN'ers might be interested to read something like that.