Do we have any Harvard or MIT grads on the board?
I know measuring intelligence is tough, but it's a pretty safe bet that most Harvard / MIT grads are smarter than most of the people on this board.
I think eLiu is currently attending grad school at MIT. Hence his defense of MIT.
Yeah, that's correct
I also did my undergrad at MIT: math & aero eng. Can't let people think badly of my school, even if in truth there are people there who couldn't light that bulb. And really there are certainly people here who'd screw it up. We definitely have some questionable folks here.
There are at least two other users (don't think either is still active) that were at MIT for undergrad: sidious & chronoshock (might be misspelling those).
It's not that hard to ask someone to make a very simple version of something they've probably used a hundred times, a flashlight. Anyone who has replaced the batteries in a flashlight should be able to do what the black kid did at the end.
I'm going to bet that a lot of people have never thought about what makes the flashlight work. They just know "oh the minus side goes down, then you screw on the top and tada!"
Are you saying the podium dude who says "We are the premier engineering and science institution in the world" is not from MIT?
God I hope not. Most people here aren't that douchey. It is possible though. And while MIT hasn't changed its graduation layout within the last decade or so, this vid appears to be from 1994. I'm assuming graduation is one of those "you stick with tradition" things but I could be wrong.
Specifically, MIT's graduation crowd looks like this:
http://blacklog.mitplw.com/wp-content/uploads/custom-content/gradcrowd.jpg
That picture is basically taken from the platform where the important folks (profs, deans, provost, guest speaker, etc) sit.
Graduation takes place here:
http://a5.vox.com/6a00c225259fe3604a00d414400b8d685e-500pi
http://collegeprowler.com/images/standard/1169/image.jpg (without the platform)
So it's pretty impossible to see trees right behind the podium... b/c there's a building there. Also the podium has a gigantic MIT seal on it.
I mean lots of these things could've been different in 1994; for all I know they didn't even do graduation in Killian Court, but I really doubt it. If we care enough, one of my profs graduated around then, lol. Given how this video skips freely btwn Harvard & MIT campus (w/o ever saying a word), I wouldn't be surprised if a 3rd school was involved. For one, his tassel is a different color than everyone else's in the video.
A girl in the vid says "I'm not a electrical engineer, I'm a mechanical engineer."
So she does... totally missed that the first time. Wow, that's pretty fucking bad for a mechanical engineer. I mean you can probably go through a meche program w/o ever constructing a physical circuit (though you'd certainly learn some paper analysis), but jesus I have a hard time imagining that a meche cannot put 2 & 2 together on this one! That's depressing.
Because you need to be a engineer to do this?
I am neither an "engineer" nor did i ever visit MIT or Harvard..but as others here i did stuff like that way before i even went to kindergarten. Also, later on in school...stuff like that was taught in 3rd or 4th grade...
Your education system is seriously f****d up....
No, you don't have to be an engineer to do this. But if you studied history or medieval french literature, etc; if that's where your passion lies... then well you probably aren't the kind of person who played with electronics, took things apart & rebuilt them, etc. And while this doesn't preclude you from having this basic knowledge, I don't see why it should be surprising that a lit major would be confused. Maybe my opinion of lit majors is too low... naaaah
I mean hell I'm pretty sure I would've failed miserably at this task in elementary school. I knew how to line up the minus & plus signs when I put batteries in my toys. That was the end of that. I was curious about how things worked... but mostly interested in mechanical things. Electricity never excited me, so to speak.
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