What do you dislike about MIT?

[kryptonsa36]

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Not so good at MIT – the buildings. Well, I don’t think it’s a particularly attractive campus, but plenty of people disagree with me. It’s an architectural hodge-podge, but I think they like it that way. It would never win a beauty contest with Caltech, Stanford, Yale, to name a few, but that’s just my opinion.

<em>shrug</em> Walking down Memorial Drive on a sunny day, with the gleaming Charles River on your one side and Killian Court/the Great Dome on your other, is f***ing majestic.</p>

<p>And Caltech winning a beauty competition? Maybe it’s possible, but that’s news to me.</p>

[CalAlum]

<p>^^Caltech has beautiful gardens and a very uniform architectural style. So yes – Caltech is pretty. But MIT is a more exciting environment, in my opinion. MIT is right on the river across from Boston, and MIT’s eclectic architectural mix is never boring. Once you obtain your preliminary sailing permit from MIT, you can come and check out a boat to sail on the Charles, and you keep that privilege for the rest of your life.</p>

[sakky]

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Thank you for the excellent reminder of why I haven’t read/posted on cc in a while – endless arguments in which the posts get longer and longer, the <quotes> blot the landscape, and people seem to see threads as a means to push their points (does anyone ever say “oh, I guess you’re right. I see your point. I stand corrected.” ?), and sorry, talk ad infinitum about themselves or their kids. (as I have done in the past when I was a CC addict) Really, who has this kind of time?</quotes></p>

<p>I can’t recommend highly enough a break from CC. Detox. Take CC off your favorites list. And then come back months later and see what you sounded like. You might be surprised.

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<p>AnudduhMom, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If you don’t like my posts, fine, then don’t read them. But why do you care so much about what I or other people do with our time? What gives you the right? It’s our time; we can do whatever we want with it. If we are indeed wasting our time, hey, that’s our problem, not yours. We don’t tell you how to spend your time; don’t tell us how to spend ours.</p>

[mia305]

<p>CalTech’s campus is hardly beautiful. Uniformity in architectural design doesn’t necessarily produce “beauty.” And, the CalTech campus is hardly uniform in any event. Among other things there is that hideous 70’s Millikan Library staring you in the face wherever you turn. Stanford is clearly uniform and if mission style - red barrel tile roof and stucco - does it for you than I wont quibble the point. It’s attractively monotonous albeit architecturally insignificant. On the other hand, at MIT there is beauty in its Eclecticism, not to mention the many architecturally significant structures. It’s not often all about flowers shrubs and uniformity, if it was everyone would live in a suburban housing development.</p>

[kryptonsa36]

<p>Hear, hear. :)</p>

[AnudduhMom]

<p>ha ha, I always think it’s funny when people try to argue with any statement that ends with “…but that’s just my opinion.”</p>

<p>Sorry if I got under your skin a bit, sakky, old chum. But QED.</p>

<p>And I don’t know about you, but I’m going outside. It’s almost summer.</p>

<p>(A.M.'s time on cc today: less than 3 minutes)</p>

[sakky]

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Sorry if I got under your skin a bit, sakky, old chum. But QED.</p>

<p>And I don’t know about you, but I’m going outside. It’s almost summer.

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<p>I don’t know about you, but I find it rather odd that you write posts claiming that what I (and others) choose to do with our time ‘doesn’t matter to you’. Uh, if you really don’t care, why write about it at all? And then choose to come back and write a second post about how (again) don’t really care. Seems to me that I have actually gotten under your skin. QED.</p>

<p>Look, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If you don’t like my posts, you don’t have to read them, and you certainly don’t have to reply to them. Nobody has a gun to your head.</p>