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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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