MIT = ITT Tech ?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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When students and people round the globe (especially india) know what it is.

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<p>I don't know about that. Plenty of people in the world have far far more pressing concerns than what the top engineering schools in the world are. Let's keep in mind that billions of people in the world still live in abject poverty. Even speaking of India, let's keep in mind that about 1/3 of all adult Indians are illiterate and millions of India still face hunger daily. I think these people would neither know nor care a whit about MIT. </p>

<p>The point is, while the average American may not know or care about MIT, let's not pretend that average person around the world is any better in this regard. Most people in the world have far more important things to worry about than distinguishing between MIT and ITT.</p>

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<p>One guy in my school asked me, "What the heck is <em>mitt</em>?"</p>

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<p>Haha, that's another "inside" way to talk about MIT... I know several people who refer to the main MIT webpage as "web dot mitt dot e-d-u".</p>

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<p>um... my great aunt who lives in taiwan looked at me really funny when i said mit and said... what made in taiwan?</p>

<p>i was kinda offended and amused at the same time</p>

<p>and also, i'm really curious mollie, is your name a play off latin? i'm sure it's been asked before</p>

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<p>My sat score is only 2140. Do you think I will get into ITT tech?</p>

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<p>i sure hope so bill, i heard they're upping the competition to get in, you have to dial an extra code after the beep... lol, my head hurts :(</p>

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<p>Nah, it's a play off my email address.</p>

<p>Sadly, it's been so long since I've been in Latin that it took me a while to figure out what you meant!</p>

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<p>yea, no when i was still taking it, it just seemed like you had some weird conjugating going off the end of your name</p>

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<p>I just had to reply to this thread. I was called by Marine recruiter, whom I informed that I had no interest in the Marine Corps. He started asking about where I was gonna go to school, so I said, "Maybe MIT." His response? "Is that a 2 year or a 4 year school?"
I almost died.</p>

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<p>...molliebat? ha! mollieveratne? I thought you meant a Roman play at first. I've always read it as "Mollie B at MIT".</p>

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<p>i always read it as mollie bat MIT</p>

<p>so i was like "wth?"</p>

<p>although when i found out that it was mollie b at mit, i was still like "wth?"</p>

<p>im such a weird person</p>

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<p>none of you thought it was off the conjugation endings in latin? bat mit? and i swear molliebat itself meant something</p>

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<p>latin? wth?</p>

<p>i only speak 3 languages and 3 langauges only.</p>

<p>english, korean, spanish. i pwned in koeran sat2 test. prettty hapyp with my score</p>

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<p>Or she could be jewish.</p>

<p>Mollie batmit(zvah)</p>

<p>Is that how you spell it?</p>

<p>Whatever I thought before, I certainly never guessed to pronounce it Mollie B @ MIT.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=molli&la=la&prior=e%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=molli&la=la&prior=e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>apparantly it means pleasant, or in verb form to make soft or supple</p>

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<p>I guessed mollie b at mit! I guessed it! Before she told us, I mean.</p>

<p>Who said Caltech students lack verbal skills :-P</p>

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<p>people?</p>

<p>and i was just thinking outside the box... wow, sorry for the tangent about mollie's sn</p>

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<p>i have no idea what u guys are talking about</p>

<p>but i wish that i had a laptop</p>

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<p>I wish I were a llama. But only rather infrequently and with reservations.</p>

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<p>dude, that was so random</p>