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MIT students don't know what stress is. Try Georgia Tech for that one. #2 least happy students in 2002.

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Explain your downvote please. It's not at all helpful to me if you don't explain.

Seriously? Who are you? Why are you doing this?

My guess is, somebody at MIT

You are already downvoted as I type this. I downvote you too. You say some gross generalisation and throw out some statistic without backing.

Perfect. now his average is at 3.14! Good job, sir.

First post in 159 days to point out that my average is close to pi? Yep, you definitely go to MIT :)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor?s=t

Also, if you want to get really pedantic about the joke, I did provide backing. You can easily check that Georgia Tech was ranked #2 in 2002 by the Princeton Review for least unhappy students. As MIT was not ranked #1 in this particular category (and they probably don't want to be), it would appear my statement is both true and supported.

hell week -> dead week -> finals week

I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_week and don't see the point of this. It just seems like stressing people out due to poor coordination and time management.

Agreed. In this situation, the individual students have agency over their level of stress during that specific week. It's absurd to make generalizations about the school because a large number of individuals decide independent of one another and of the institution to waste time or to procrastinate.

Dead week? MIT has dead Thursday and dead Friday. There is no week.

It's quite the improvement from last year's Dead Friday (or last winter's dead Thursday with Friday finals.

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