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I don't get it. I just have under the heading, Plain Hacker News, "a01 a02".

I mean, it's definitely plain.

Edit: oh is this some kind of theme? I'm new.

Sort of like the 'free' coffins, 'free' attorneys to help write wills, and 'free' burial sites or cremations?

>"By the way, you should've taken it F10!"

My god, yes. I wish I would have had the foresight to have done it earlier rather than in the Spring. I am definitely not a fan of TEAL.

The culture varies across campus regarding those kinds of in-house projects. It is very common for people to have either an internship or research position outside of class, though.

Burnout and subsequent energy management are only the superficial components, I think. I've found that the curriculum really cuts to the core of how people think as they work. To me, the major lesson I've learned throughout my 3.5 years at MIT so far is how to deal with futility.

I feel like people (I'm probably thinking mostly of my parents and friends outside) often refer to "trying until you succeed". But sometimes you just won't. Often you won't. You're not smart enough, don't have the resources, those things that keep you up at night. If you tie everything to big success and ground-breaking progress, you'll burnout because there's nothing for you to chew on. You feel like you're spinning your wheels.

So the lesson I've only just started to really take in is that to avoid burnout you do things for the sake of doing them and celebrate the smallest, stupidest things you can. That's of course from someone who has yet to even graduate, let alone really start accomplishing anything of significant worth. So take that shit with a grain of salt.

Was it TEAL last semester? That's really what made me dislike the class the most, as well as the less-than-helpful staff.

Not stupid at all. Yes, as I remember it, this was pretty much all covered in a single, 14-week semester.

I took this class (6.042) as a sophomore a few semesters ago. I wasn't terribly good at it. Additionally, the professor and staff were a real pain in the ass, so I didn't really have the best experience. I remember they were writing this text my year. They made us do reading assignments critiquing each section. They were basically having us proofread it for them.

Isn't Google's dominance in the search engine business pretty well established at this point? Is there a sizable group of people that, upon using Chrome, will be using Google search more often?

I would disagree: I think there is a point. The issue isn't necessarily the wording of the joke or semantics in the apology. It's this idea that the entire tech community is male and should be treated as such. It's not about this being politically correct or agreeable, it's about the attitude being insular. In my opinion, it would have been fine if they had said something similar, yet gender-neutral. Comments can be sexy without being sexist.