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Post by bigfan on Apr 5, 2019 17:05:00 GMT -5
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Post by ned3vball on Apr 5, 2019 17:59:09 GMT -5
Watching her hit was a reminder of the big gap between D1 level talent and D3, when she got a good set it was "women vs girls". Very good player. If their starting setter, Andie Maloney, had not spent her sophomore season in a wrist cast, it might have been a special year for MIT.
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 5, 2019 19:08:36 GMT -5
Watching her hit was a reminder of the big gap between D1 level talent and D3, when she got a good set it was "women vs girls". Very good player. If their starting setter, Andie Maloney, had not spent her sophomore season in a wrist cast, it might have been a special year for MIT. I'm not as familiar with the DIII scene or MIT. Heck, I didn't even know they have a volleyball team. Aren't these MIT folks the non-athletic type, being all future engineers and scientists wearing thick glasses and carrying thick books on complex subjects that the average guy on the street would have no clue about? Ok, I'm kidding. I just pushed a very stereotyped image of nerdish engineer and scientist. Not always a correct impression I know.
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Post by trainermch on Apr 5, 2019 19:14:52 GMT -5
Watching her hit was a reminder of the big gap between D1 level talent and D3, when she got a good set it was "women vs girls". Very good player. If their starting setter, Andie Maloney, had not spent her sophomore season in a wrist cast, it might have been a special year for MIT. I'm not as familiar with the DIII scene or MIT. Heck, I didn't even know they have a volleyball team. Aren't these MIT folks the non-athletic type, being all future engineers and scientists wearing thick glasses and carrying thick books on complex subjects that the average guy on the street would have no clue about? Ok, I'm kidding. I just pushed a very stereotyped image of nerdish engineer and scientist. Not always a correct impression I know. They are, after all, the MIT "Engineers!"
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 19:25:22 GMT -5
Beavers.
But all the other animal engineers don't share the same engineering rep as beavers. Don't know why. Other animals are just as impressive with their building skills.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 19:28:29 GMT -5
When I was little, my uncle asked me, "Have you thought about college?"
Me: "No."
"You're good at math and science. Have you heard of MIT?"
Me: "M-I-T? Mit? Baseball mit?"
"It's a school?"
Me: "It's a baseball school?"
"No, it's a school for smart kids."
Me: "Screw that! I'm going to CalTech."
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 19:32:58 GMT -5
Beavers.But all the other animal engineers don't share the same engineering rep as beavers. Don't know why. Other animals are just as impressive with their building skills. No, "Engineers" is correct.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 19:38:19 GMT -5
Beavers.But all the other animal engineers don't share the same engineering rep as beavers. Don't know why. Other animals are just as impressive with their building skills. No, "Engineers" is correct. What happened to "beavers"? Edit: Oh, looked it up. "Engineers" is the nickname and the beaver, or Tim the Beaver, is their mascot.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 19:43:09 GMT -5
No, "Engineers" is correct. What happened to "beavers"? MIT has always been the "Engineers", as far as I know. Their mascot is a beaver, but the teams are called "The Engineers". We sometimes called club teams "The Beavers", but the NCAA teams were always "The Engineers".
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 19:46:23 GMT -5
ps. The beaver mascot never had a name until the late 80s. We had a cartoon that ran in the student newspaper called "TIM", where all the characters were beavers and the main character used to wear his MIT T-shirt inside out. When asked why, he said it was because his name was Tim.
Sometime after that cartoon had been running for a while, all of a sudden the school started called the mascot "Tim".
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 19:48:29 GMT -5
ps. The beaver mascot never had a name until the late 80s. We had a cartoon that ran in the student newspaper called "TIM", where all the characters were beavers and the main character used to wear his MIT T-shirt inside out. When asked why, he said it was because his name was Tim. Sometime after that cartoon had been running for a while, all of a sudden the school started called the mascot "Tim". LOL! I was wondering why "Tim." Now this makes sense.
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 19:59:22 GMT -5
I just looked at an old copy of the newspaper and remembered the name of the comic was actually ".T.I.M Beaver".
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 5, 2019 20:09:46 GMT -5
I'm not as familiar with the DIII scene or MIT. Heck, I didn't even know they have a volleyball team. Aren't these MIT folks the non-athletic type, being all future engineers and scientists wearing thick glasses and carrying thick books on complex subjects that the average guy on the street would have no clue about? Ok, I'm kidding. I just pushed a very stereotyped image of nerdish engineer and scientist. Not always a correct impression I know. They are, after all, the MIT "Engineers!" Yup. I was teasing earlier with the stereotype of engineers and scientist as socially awkward and non-sporty types wearing thick glasses. I in fact admire engineers a lot. They built and maintain stuff all around us. My father was one. He was a civil engineer, building bridges and highways. And mechanical engineers builds the engine in my car. Aerospace engineers builds the airliners we fly on. Electrical engineers helps with the electrical grid and software etc. Naval architect build ships we sail on. I just didn't necessarily associate them with being the athletic type, an unfair assessment on my part. Speaking of MIT, they do have a rigorous, demanding and heavy homework load, right? Where do these kids find the time to play and practice volleyball?
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 20:15:08 GMT -5
Speaking of MIT, they do have a rigorous, demanding and heavy homework load, right? Where do these kids find the time to play and practice volleyball? Gotta do something other than schoolwork or you burn out fast.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 20:19:58 GMT -5
We played "Killer."
It's like Hunger Games except back then, there was no such thing as "Hunger Games." Everyone was assigned a target they had to "kill" with a water pistol. If you killed your assigned target, you now have to kill your target's assigned target. And so on until there was no one left.
I wasn't very good.
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