Comments on: 36 Little Details If You Want to Set a Story at MIT http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/ In Which The Menagerie Misbehaves Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-222 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:51:22 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-222 OMG you went to Emerson??? Have we had this conversation and I just forgot?! I did a few films at Emerson and had a bunch of friends there. And my sword fighting coaches taught there. I love Emerson folk!!!

]]> By: Sunflower Michelle http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-220 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:06:57 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-220 Well, we were also right across the Charles. I can imagine there was far less drama at MIT than at Emerson, though.

]]> By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-219 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:44:48 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-219 Indeed it does!

]]> By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-218 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:43:52 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-218 Ha! To this day I don’t know the actual word names of most of the classes I took — I could probably name, um, three of them? That just wasn’t how we knew them. And a lot of the more popular classes would get shortened, so for instance, I would still say today, “I really regret never being able to take 170 (pronounced “one-seventy”)” and everyone will know I mean 6.170 (six-one-seventy) and what class that is, though I would absolutely bet that none of us know the actual name.

Of course, we didn’t always know all the classes in every major. So conversations would go like this sometimes:

“It’s for 18.821.” (eighteen-eight-twenty-one)
“Which one is that?”
“Oh, the new mathematical lab class.” <-- but notice we don't know the actual name, LOL! (of course, the person would know it's math, cuz everyone new all the majors, and 18 = math.) A few months into MIT I was already so inculcated in the slang that a friend's parent was visiting and we had the following conversation: Him: So what major are you? Me (without thinking about it): 18! Him: Um, I'm an MIT parent, not a student. What's 18? Me: Oh, uh, sorry! Math!

]]> By: SL Huang (aka MathPencil) http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-217 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:34:45 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-217 Hahaha! Yeah, math isn’t for everyone. I try to assure my high school students that it’s totally okay in the grand scheme of things if math isn’t their thing. It’s like anything else — some people love it and some people don’t!

]]> By: InMyBook http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-216 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:56:28 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-216 MIT most definitely has its own unique culture. Very interesting.

]]> By: mclesh http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-215 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 06:53:13 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-215 Lol at #31. Sounds like a wonderful place, although the numbering convention regarding the class titles would drive me nuts! I love #34–no car. Nice. I also like that the frat system is a footnote, as well as sports. #36–interesting! Interpersonal relations are SO complex!

]]> By: Sunflower Michelle http://www.badmenagerie.com/36-little-details-if-you-want-to-set-a-story-at-mit/#comment-212 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:39:10 +0000 http://www.slhuang.com/blog/?p=1603#comment-212 My college called ourselves the “anti-MIT.” Mostly because none of us could do math to save our lives.

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