7 Things at MIT that Don’t Make Sense
- The building numbering system
2. How we call each major by a number
I too feel cool saying I am a course 6
3. How our sports mascot is an engineer.
Literally a person with a specific profession.
4. Why everything is an acronym
I’m looking forward to REX! Going to ASE out of every class and skip all the HASS requirements
5. Why some majors have really high numbers
Did they really think of creating math (18) as a major after political science (17)?
6. How we decide that the optimal course of action at a given point in time is to overload on classes and extracurriculars as much as possible, or how course 6’s are viewed as both respected majors and sellouts, 15s are respected at other colleges but looked down upon at ours, and humanities don’t exist.
7. How none of us know what the grade level of a rising sophomore is
Do we become sophomores after freshman year ends? How about after convocation? When junior year starts?