Perhaps the small group of people that cube at Caltech have the ability to focus on something they are really truly passionate about? I don't see the correlation. Maybe we're different from most people out there? Perhaps we really can succeed at cubing, in even a highly stressful academic environment.
Yeah, I'm pretty confident that our undergraduate core curriculum is one of the most intense academic workloads in the world. It's impossible to rank them numerically, but I'll say we're definitely in the top 1/2%. In any case, it's true. The hours people spend cubing are for their own benefit. The hours we spend running competitions and assisting in everything else gives us no such self-gratification. Tyson Mao Astrophysics '06 California Institute of Technology On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:21 PM, GameOfDeath2 wrote: > --- In [email protected], aznseashell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What, just because we have a lot of homework we can't have our >> hobbies? I'd also like to point out that "the amount of cubing that >> seems to go on in Caltech" is centralized around a small handful of >> people, out of the 900+ undergraduates that go here. >> >> Shelley >> >> >> --- In [email protected], GameOfDeath2 >> <no_reply@> wrote: >> >>> From the amount of cubing that seems to go on in CalTech I would be >> amazed if that statement was true. >> > > Not at all - I'm saying is that if CalTech really has more homework > than any educational > establishment on earth (except in India) then nobody would have time > to do so much > cubing. Are you confirming the statement about CalTech having more > homework than all > those other places? > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
