Yeah, that's pretty much how I chose Tulane. The only reason I had heard of
it was all the Saturday afternoon college football reports. The stupid thing
is that I ignore football, always have, from NY, a baseball town. I guess it
turned out OK. Whatever. Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Humphries" <bill@whump.com>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
Cc: <fork@kragen.dnaco.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: MIT Free
> At 2:01 PM -0700 4/7/01, Dave Winer wrote:
> >Why does a famous university like MIT need to do marketing?
>
> When I was teenager, my brother (who was at the time a well-established
suburbanite and executive) asked me where I wanted to go to college.
>
> I told him MIT, and he said he never heard of the place (mind you, he went
to Texas Tech.)
>
> So outside of geek circles, MIT still needed some name recognition.
>
> That's probably changed in the past 20 years.
>
> -- Bill
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