M. Hirsch ([info]hirsch222) wrote,
  • Music: Front Line Assembly - "Maniacal"

Mixed Bits


  • Today I made my annual Tire Sacrifice to the Boston Pothole Gods. I thought they were letting me go free this year, but it looks like they just late in their collection, with a nice concealed doozy on Rte 16 in Newton. It could have been worse; last year they not only took a tire, they took the rim it was on.


  • RIP Mitch Hedberg


  • For CMU people, here's a few half-correct pages from ebay listing for an "unofficial guide" to the school.
    I'm curious to see the rest of it, but not $15 + shipping curious.


  • The ducks are back! When it rains heavily, as it did this week, our backyard floods and turns into a small pond. And then ducks show up and swim around in it. My roommates and I still haven't figured out how the ducks monitor our backyard so they know to show up when it's a pond.

  • My roommate is holding a poker game at our house tomorrow, on April Fool's Day. Isn't that just asking for trouble?



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[info]novajay927

March 31 2005, 12:56:21 UTC 7 years ago

Heh, I would say the pages shown are more than half-correct, they actually seem fairly realistic to me. To the extent they aren't correct, they probably are misperceptions held by a large proportion of the CMU campus.

However, I would also say it's painfully obvious stuff to anyone who's gone to CMU. Would I recommend it to a prospective student? Maybe. Would I want to see the rest of it? I don't think it would be worth any sum of money, even if it was less than $15 + shipping.

[info]hirsch222

March 31 2005, 15:16:54 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah, it's all obvious to us. I'm not sure how useful that information would be to a freshman, because at that point they're already locked in. They would know most of that stuff by the end of their first semester anways. It would be most useful to someone considering CMU. It would help answer a lot of questions that a high school student wouldn't ask in a college interview.

The social stuff is mostly on-target. I thought the academics stuff was off, but after a re-read it makes more sense, though some of it is overly generic. "Some profs are good, some profs are bad" No shit!

I think the housing stuff is the most off-kilter. They didn't look at many different dorms, they said nice things about it, and then they gave it a "D."

However, I would point out to [info]queiss that they listed "Diversity" as #2 on their "Ten Best Things About CMU" list...
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