Thanks to a sticky-fingered fan of the Beaver who managed to infiltrate MIT’s special Lavender Graduation ceremony, we now have a copy of a rare undergraduate diploma conferred by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism (SHASS).

Course 21, as it is known on campus, is generally considered a washout degree reserved for MIT undergrads who made the mistake of matriculating at the world’s leading STEM university but didn’t have the gumption to transfer to lesser universities like Harvard or Yale once they recognized their tragic error.

(The Department of Economics aside, of course, which really should stop slumming with the Humanities lest they end up on the receiving end of another feminist hack.)

Imagine dragging yourself through all those calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology problem sets when you could have partied your way through an Ivy League school, ending up with an equally useless liberal arts degree, your head stuffed with the same postmodern anticolonial critical theory borscht that qualifies you for an entry level job as a barista at Starbucks.

Course 21 graduate students, of course, are another matter. Most arrive innumerate and depart the same way, only armed with a PhD branded with an Odour of Expertise that allows them to better baffle their colleagues with their bullsh*t.

One can only hope that in the fullness of time MIT wakes up and divests the bulk of Course 21, as was suggested years ago by the Babbling Beaver.

Story suggested by A Beaver Fan