Re: TIB: Re: Wheee
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Re: TIB: Re: Wheee
Speaking as a fourth generation So. Californian and a linguistic
anthropologist, "Structures and Stuff" sounds pretty good, especially when the
next closest thing would be "Structures 'n' Shit." We Californians have quite
a way with words, don't we?
Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> At 10:03 PM 2/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I only use MIT as the college because we all know it is a good college but
> >any high end college could be replaced in its name. Well actually MIT is
> >the shortest name I could think of <g>
>
> Actually the best people come from CalTech (CIT for short). It is nearly
> impossible to get into CIT and the college puts out the best techies in the
> world. There is one professor to every 6 students which means that it is a
> very demanding school and only 19% of applicants actually ever get in
> partly because it is a small college (ACT, SAT I, AND the SAT II all have
> to be taken and you have to get a minimum of 700 points on the SAT tests in
> order to even be considered). MIT isn't even that demanding. There is a
> downside to CIT...they tend to be a little wild and kRazY (check out the
> course description section for the programming course in the Computer
> Science major section of their web site to see what I mean: "CS102:
> Structures and stuff"...the word 'stuff' isn't usually used in a
> description of a programming course :)
>
> Thomas J. Hruska -- thruska@tir.com
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--
Douglas S. Oliver
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
e-mail: douglaso@citrus.ucr.edu
or: dsoliver@earthlink.net
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