<p>Did you really mean to post that in this thread, yolochka? Why?</p>
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<p>There are forums where sports fans furiously and endlessly debate which players should be hired and fired to help their favorite teams win. Why should they have all the fun?</p>
<p>Feel free to join them there, if that is what you find entertaining. This feels like beating a dead horse to me.</p>
<p>** ETA to clarify- my question to yolochka was that I thought that was more likely a question related to a discussion in another thread, not this one.</p>
<p>gay slurs… aspie slurs… Jewish marriages… I love this thread.
Ok, but the kids at Exeter are coached around the clock by the IMO team mentor (that Asian man), in an environment with a critical mass of like-minded students to motivate them. You can’t argue that the AoPS stuff makes up for that.</p>
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I just wanted to clarify this statement by PizzaGirl “I certainly wouldn’t care if my children dated / married people of any socioeconomic class, as long as they were hard-working, good people who treated my children nicely.”</p>
<p>Actually, I was wondering about her view. I don’t care about the issue at all.</p>
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<p>This may have been true 60 years ago, but how many people still get married right out of college anymore? I would be surprised if people who are attending nationally ranked colleges with national student bodies (i.e. 75% OOS with great regional diversity) tend to get married right away. What I’ve observed is that they get married in their very late 20s or early 30s to people they met at work or in graduate school, not undergrad. And they certainly don’t tend to marry people they grew up with in the same suburb (although they may marry people from similar backgrounds).</p>
<p>It’s an odd contention, especially today, that kids go to college to meet a partner.</p>
<p>Just, since you guys are discussing those videos, I’d like to bring in a quick reminder that the winners in the American film went mainly to Harvard, one to Stanford, and one was drafted into the Korean army (which begs the question of why he was competing on the American team, but I digress).</p>
<p>None of them went to MIT.</p>
<p>In the British film, some were clearly on the spectrum. I don’t see how you could even discuss that film without it coming up. The “hero” of the narrative, Daniel, was shown to be immensely sympathetic, imho, and it was a very good film, from that perspective, as far as I was concerned. He, of course, went to university in England.</p>
<p>Just so we don’t get overly tangled up in the MIT question, which seems to trouble the competitors, not one whit.</p>
<p>Sixty years ago the really exclusive residential colleges weren’t co-ed so I’m not sure the marriage market idea makes sense. But Bel, I did not choose my town with an eye on who my kids might marry. I chose it for semi-reasonable taxes, a school system that had won awards and affordable house prizes with an easy commute for dh. The last was the most important.</p>
<p>I don’t think you go to college to meet your partner, but I’d guess 1/3 of my friends met their partners in undergrad and a somewhat smaller portion in grad school.</p>
<p>Bel, for some of us, love is about serendipity and the affairs of the heart, not trying to social-engineer who our precious genes commingle with to produce a master race of only-brilliant-descendants.</p>
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<p>What’s this? I’ve been missing out on a chance to grumble about MIT? How about somebody sending out invites next time? I hate to miss the fun! ;)</p>
<p>I watched the British documentary this weekend, after watching the American one. I was perplexed that the British chose to focus on the obviously autistic kid and tried hard to make others look autistic. I know personally lots of mathematicians, some are considered geniuses, but they are mostly normal people, although may have some peculiarities.
PizzaGirl, did you miss my question or chose not to reply?</p>
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<p>Yes, but by choosing a town and pushing a college with lots of smart and affluent parents and children, I can increase the odds of that happening.</p>
<p>LI! where ya been?</p>
<p>Ylochka & others: The title of the video is “Beautiful Young Minds.”</p>
<p>The video was made in 2006.</p>
<p>I think some people here would really LIKE the auter to have had a different intention, but it is clear from the title, that this was a movie about people and not about math competitions. See: “A Beautiful Mind” </p>
<p>Amazing book, though the movie is shorter.</p>
<p>If somebody here wants to see a different movie about the IMOs, they are going to have to produce it themselves. No? ;)</p>
<p>^ Bel, c’mon. And you could blow all that planning with one trip outside the (proverbial or real) gates.</p>
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<p>You are making my point for me. Likewise, I think Pizzagirl stated in an earlier thread that she and several of her college friends met their spouses in college. I care more about what happens empirically than what people say about their motivations.</p>
<p>I think that, by focusing on empirical and searching for "truths " in studies, you may lose the human aspects. We’re not programmed.</p>
<p>My reply stands for itself and needs no clarification.</p>
<p>Yes, Beliavsky, I (and many of my college friends) met spouses in college. However, the chances of my daughter meeting a spouse at her college is slim to none, as it is a single sex college and she is heterosexual. MIT is their “brother school”, but I’m not sitting here crossing my fingers that she lands one of those USAMO guys, LOL.</p>
<p>I thought Harvard was their brother school, and MIT was the second choice.</p>
<p>“I care more about what happens empirically than what people say about their motivations.”
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the poster meant exactly that if I read it right.
if one belongs to same organization his farther was also the member, and his mother was in the same grouping of religion affiliated sorority, it is clarified.
And have not said that her daughter have attended a concert at MIT recently, however how many of MIT students in the seating or how many of area girls’ schools were there, is not known.
Please be kind to other members. It came to the point I needed to speak up.
I am encouraged to voice concern in the public freely by whom watching over this site, I believe I have the right to do so.
Thank you.</p>