Talk:Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Admition strategy for MIT.

There are people with eunique skills and abilities in specific areas. Does MIT offer a chance to prodigies who have not completed their high school course or rather the secondary education. Mikolodel (talk) 11:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

@Mikolodel: You have asked a question which is not appropriate for this Wikipedia article. I suggest going to a Q&A website such as Quora.com, where this question has been asked, discussed, and answered multiple times. Reify-tech (talk) 23:31, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Asked the right way, the question makes sense here, and some addition to the article could be needed. That would be true especially if MIT had a specific program for addressing such students. I don't know that is true, but could be discussed here until we know. Gah4 (talk) 08:04, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Leo Marx

Professor Leo Marx has died. Any help with the article would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 03:02, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Yulia's Dream

This could be added somewhere in the article . Super Ψ Dro 22:47, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

References

Neutrality concerns threatening GA status of Francis Amasa Walker

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Francis Amasa Walker § Work as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I'd appreciate if someone could review the article for neutrality and remove the NPOV tag once the issues have been addressed. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:12, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

This fixation on rankings

The MIT article has just been worked over with successive additions, reversions, and new additions, all to promote its lofty achievement of high ratings by various magazine articles. This gets so tedious. For the record, I will stipulate that MIT, along with Caltech probably, are the two best science schools in the nation. That said, there are a group of editors, usually hiding behind anonymity, who insist on bloviating on over these rankings and engaging in Citation overkill

Those who do this may think they are serving the interest of their favored school. However, many of us take umbrage (for those who didn't attend Hah-vard, MIT or Yale, that means "become annoyed about"), as I was saying, we take umbrage about the endless, pestering small edits, adding one reference at a time, then fixing it, then correcting a double space, then another typo, then another word, and then starting all over again with yet another reference. I care about clarity and substance, and so like many other reviewers I read these edits, and compare them each step along the way. There are a couple of schools that collect these ponderous edits like fleas on a dog - Georgia, Wayne State, every stinkin' one of the Ivy League articles, and now MIT, Stanford and Cal. Every day these seem to have a slough of additional, pedantic edits to review. --Just to declare that they are special.

Many of us take further umbrage at editors who hide behind anonymity. Yes, Wikipedia allows Anon to edit. But the hard truth is, many of us start our review of Anon's work with a negative bias, as if we might assume they are hiding something, like a connection to the school's media department, perhaps?

Time to create a real user account, with a Talk page that invites dialog, and to declare your conflicts of interest. Everyone has 'em. Jax MN (talk) 19:23, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

According to WHOIS data (https://whois-referral.toolforge.org/gateway.py?lookup=true&ip=18.29.1.178, https://whois.domaintools.com/18.29.1.178) for 18.29.1.178, that IP address is for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room W92-167, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. If that's not a conflict of interest, I don't know what is.

BTW, https://officesdirectory.mit.edu/information-systems-and-technology says that that room is the office of Vice President for Information Systems & Technology Mark V Silis. Solomon Ucko (talk) 21:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Solomon. Anon, I understand, too, that for college administrators or media relations people it can be frightening to consider that Wikipedia summary articles are out of your control. Many of us who police these articles for vandalism also police them for bloviating, puffary, bad references and unsupported claims. Again, MIT is a well-known and highly-regarded school. I frankly don't care if you work there yet make the occasional edit, as long as your edits are factual, encyclopedic in style, and consistent in scope with peer organizations. Since many of these college and university articles tend toward bloat and tend to focus on ratings, rather than fight to rid the entire class of such articles of all but summary treatment, I would vote to allow some of it. But please, note your conflicts of interest, and limit each paragraph to a few high-value references, eh? Jax MN (talk) 22:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)