Cut Throat University

molliebatmit
Thu, 24 May 2007 20:42:59 +0000

Difficulty does not equate to competitiveness.

My personal thought is that difficulty precludes competitiveness – you can only be cutthroat when a subject is easy enough that you can afford to sabotage other people.

When you’re in science and engineering at MIT and Caltech (and other places, I’m sure), you can’t afford to be cutthroat – you have to rely on other people to help you do your problem sets and study for tests, and if you’re a jerk, other people won’t help you.