That, too. I have bought fruit trees developed at Cornell, and probably think of it as a farm school before i think of it as an ivy. Also, when i visited a friend who was in their physics PhD program, the footprints of the “farm school” aspect of Cornell was all over the place. I’ve visited MIT many times without ever noticing that aspect, if, indeed, they still do farming work.
Farming is just applied biology.
And often experimental biology, at that!
ETA: The fruit trees were probably developed at their Geneva campus. Unfortunately, IMO, some of those orchards have been replaced by facilities engaged in experimental food processing technologies.
Cornell also has a renowned school of hotel / restaurant management & chefery. All about converting the raw crops into high (dollar) yield foodie experiences. Pretty yumtastic IME.
I knew about Cornell as a land grant, but Massachusetts Agricultural and Mechanical (U-MAT) or Mass Ag and Tech (Maggot - U)?
j/k
Depends on the subject. For engineering or the hard sciences, MIT is about as prestigious as it gets. But a Cornell history degree, or a William and Mary English degree, sounds a lot more prestigious to me than the equivalent from MIT.
Oh, and
But I want another 13/17 year cicada convergence, like we got this year. That’s going to take 56 billion years.
Is that a joke about base 2? Otherwise, I don’t get it.
It’s just a joke about typical problems assigned to calculus students. Water draining out of tanks (at a rate proportional to the water level) is super common.
If I were less lazy right now, I’d dig up some AP test problems with that premise.
Yep. Been there, integrated that
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Thank you!
Shouldn’t technetium and promethium also be fire?