A little humor to take a load off.

College Search & Selection
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<p>I found this really funny!</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Elorch/humor/MIT.html%5DMIT%5B/url"&gt;http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lorch/humor/MIT.html]MIT[/url&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p>

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<p>I thought it had to be a hoax, but it’s real. Here’s MIT’s explanation for it:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/humor/MIT-admissions[/url]”>http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/humor/MIT-admissions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>MIT says their letter was intended as quirky, tongue-in-cheek humor, hoping to show another side of MIT and also stand out to students who were getting ten college letters a day. My daughter got a few quirky recruiting letters this year, like Macalester’s “blah blah blah” letter.</p>

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<p>Hilarious! My personal favorite…</p>

<p>“You think I can pay for your school? Don’t be too sure. I’ve got surprises for you there, too.”</p>

<p>:D</p>

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<p>spdf, ehhh, I don’t think I’d really buy MITs babble about how it was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek humor. I think they were actually making an excuse for their obvious pomposity.</p>