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penfold_x

Training and Deploying STEM Professionals in Panem

Feb 17, 2015 18:15

Was just about to post a comment to kawuli's great post on District 9, which is chock full of details about modern agriculture and her headcanon, when I realized that I had a long digression that I should probably put somewhere I can find again.

kawuli noted, "Which means that District 9 probably has a few scattered crop-production centers with something like ( Read more... )

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penfold_x February 18 2015, 19:28:19 UTC

Thanks :D ( ... )

kawuli February 18 2015, 18:16:28 UTC

Ditto on the love for your incredibly well thought out context for Three--IT IS AWESOME tell me all of it :D

As with a lot of other things in Panem, I think the Capitol privileges control over efficiencyThis is the #1 thing I try to keep in mind when I'm going "I wonder how [thing] works in Panem" and I completely agree on the disconnect between designers of stuff in Three and users of stuff in other districts ( ... )

penfold_x February 18 2015, 20:15:03 UTC

there is totally a basis for what you are describing in modern-day USA. I think it's a great way to train scientists and engineers!

Ah, I had no idea! That's really awesome! I went to a very traditional liberal arts school for undergrad, so I have been shooting in the dark on this. I started with the question 'why does Beetee seem to know everything?' (other than the plot needs him to), and kind of went from there.

I did see you post about the house thing at Caltech, I think in the comments to one of lorataprose's january meme, and wanted to talk with you about the color teams, but I think I was on my phone at the time, and when I was at home and looking for it, I couldn't find it (I went through at least ten of the days before I threw my hands up), so I'm glad we're finally getting to squee about that.

a) every freshman and sophomore is taking a lot of the same classes (because core) and b) the problem sets are REALLY FREAKING HARD so for those of us who are not actual geniuses collaboration is the only way to get everything done and also ( ... )

kawuli February 18 2015, 21:24:52 UTC

(I lifted this directly from MIT; their students' pranks occasionally make the news on the east coast. Maybe Caltech has something similar?)

AHAHAHAHAHA YES. See: The Great Rose Bowl Hoax, also changing the Hollywood sign to read "Caltech." There are occasional prank wars between MIT and Caltech (Caltech is better). Dabney (my house) got disowned by the Dabney family in the 70s after hanging a sign reading "Impeach Nixon" off the 9-story library before a Presidential visit ( ... )

penfold_x February 18 2015, 21:37:23 UTC

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