{"id":25668,"date":"2020-01-18T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2020-01-08T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:00:38","slug":"diversity-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/18\/diversity-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a &#8220;fun lunch&#8221; presentation of photos from Oshkosh in our FAA Private Pilot ground school at MIT (videos linked from <a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/teaching\/ground-school\/\">the course home page<\/a>), the next slide contained the following images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1520\" height=\"1140\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-1520x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25669\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25669\" class=\"wp-image-25669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-1520x1140.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9962.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1520\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793-1140x1520.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25670\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=25670\" class=\"wp-image-25670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_9793.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MBB_Bo_105\">Bo 105<\/a> aerobatic helicopter in a custom Trump 2020 paint scheme)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the slide appeared I asked the 75-person class &#8220;Raise your hand if you support Donald Trump.&#8221; 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