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Feynman writes about having to satisfy a liberal arts requirement in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, so the requirement goes back at least to the late thirti
by madcaptenor 12y ago
Feynman writes about having to satisfy a liberal arts requirement in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, so the requirement goes back at least to the late thirties.
- mcguire 12y agoIt's been a while since I read it, but I seem to recall his approach to it was what I assume to be the normal MIT student's: take the minimum he could get away with and complain about how useless it was. I could be misremembering, though, and that was written much later in his life.
- madcaptenor 12y agoYou're pretty much right, according to: - this oral history: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/5020_2.html http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/5020_2.html (search for "astronomy", which apparently was considered a humanities course!) - this transcription of the relevant section of Surely You're Joking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paranoid/Feynman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paranoid/Feynman