Survey of MIT Students on their Stress

Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by jpdoctor on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:35PM (#4890515)

Perhaps this is a little bit of inside baseball, but LOL at the breakdown by Course number for "Academically, I would consider myself above average at MIT".

Course 18 in the lead followed by 8 5 and 6. The only thing that's changed in the past few decades is that 5 is getting a bit more uppity.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by ipince on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:46PM (#4890534)

For those who don't know the numbers, 18, 8, 5, and 6 correspond to the sciences, math, physics, chemistry, and EECS, respectively.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by mhb on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:18AM (#4890745)

For those of us, it would be thoughtful to reveal that in some way in the graphs. Do MIT students really memorize the correspondence of course numbers to subjects?

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by 2arrs2ells on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:29AM (#4890768)

They do.

There's even an MIT "joke" that's just a string of course numbers followed by "out," indicating the stereotypical path of a struggling MIT student.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by krzysz00 on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:00AM (#4890848)

Out of curiosity, what's the string?

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by dthunt on Saturday December 08, 2012 @10:16AM (#4891751)

(Anything)->15->Out.

I suspect there are others.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by robdoherty2 on Saturday December 08, 2012 @09:54AM (#4891705)

The buildings are all referred to by number on MIT campus too (Building 14), and while it takes a little while to get used to that it becomes second nature before long.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by mathishmagic on Saturday December 08, 2012 @12:42AM (#4890801)

Yes. It's number one on the '101 thugs to do before you graduate' list every year. It's actually not that hard. There's only 24 (including skipped numbers).

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by carb on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:58AM (#4890988)

You do it without thinking about it.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by selter01 on Saturday December 08, 2012 @02:32AM (#4891053)

Yes, it's not that hard when it's totally immersed in the school culture.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by starpilot on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:58PM (#4890555)

http://xkcd.com/435/

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by polarix on Saturday December 08, 2012 @01:24AM (#4890907)

Actually: 18 = math 8 = physics 6 = eecs 5 = chemistry

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by selter01 on Saturday December 08, 2012 @02:32AM (#4891054)

That's what he said.

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Re:Survey of MIT Students on their Stress by mayneack on Saturday December 08, 2012 @11:53AM (#4891984)

5 probably is just a factor of a small sample size. It's a small major.

There's also some weird things going on with 17 (political science) and I would speculate that it's due to the high rate of double majoring. AFAIK, there is only one 17 senior that isn't double majoring.

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