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Greifer's avatar

I am an MIT ugrad alum from the 90s. The place was evil then, and many of its administrative actions have been evil before and since.

But at least at the time, it was evil at the admin level, and the evil was directed at the students and researchers because the students and researchers were busy mocking the elite or otherwise declaring the had no clothes.

The evil trickled down to a prof here or there, but mostly it was at the dean and up level.

What's so clear here is it's trickled down now to the entire enterprise.

The whole ethos of MIT (whether myth or reality) was a bunch of nerds who happily showed up the vaunted "elites", whether you the road or just up a floor or two.

That's gone. They used to be the black cats, using data to skewer politics. Now they're just what they used to mock.

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I LOVE YOU KITTY!!!

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