Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life is a grind for the undergraduate, it is a grist mill for the advanced student. Already equipped with some scientific training, the grad student finds Tech more a job where he is an apprentice than a school where he is a learner. For him this is no 9-5 day, 40-hour week proposition. The chemical engineers and spectroscopists may work around the clock figures on a dial, and the night lights of the architectural drafting room are a beacon that can be seen as far down Mass. Ave, as Central Square...
Strangely enough, the closest thing at Tech to House life as Harvard knows it has developed in the 450 man graduate dormitory--The Graduate House. Once a hotel, and still equipped with the long corridors and slatted doors of its former grandeur, the monstrous brick building offers its residents Claverly-sized rooms, a magnificent view of the river front, and an esprit de corps. Dances, intramural sports, and a keen sense of belonging flourish in the Grad House...
Most Harvard students think of an M.I.T. undergraduate as one of two extremes--a laboratory slave or the immature perpetrator of some highly publicized pranks. Although the two conceptions seem mutually exclusive, Tech men in surprising numbers manage to conform to both...
Heavy emphasis on the academic aspects of education not only results in pranks, but also leads the Tech student to form an entirely different set of loyalties and faculty contacts than his Harvard counterpart. In addition, it can tend to make him somewhat one-sided by depriving him of free time for non-academic pursuits...
Instead of 12 hours in class and an equivalent amount on outside work, the Tech student spends about 25 hours on each. Although labs are less frequent than one might suspect (most have about two three-hour labs every three weeks), it takes about 5 hours according to one B-plus student to "write up the voluminous reports they expect from...