MIT professor invites Ahmed -- to his ‘dream school’
Source: Boston Globe
MIT astrophysics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reached out on Twitter to the aspiring engineer, who was wearing a NASA shirt at the time of his arrest, to invite him to the university.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/09/16/mit-professor-invites-ahmed-texas-teen-arrested-over-mistaken-clock-his-dream-school/RXaNxi36gHfhUxFTKazgbL/story.html
Here's the Tweet invite by the MIT Professor;
Ahmed and family have set up an official Twitter account: @IStandWithAhmed Please follow it for their own updates.
Chanda (王嬋娟 @IBJIYONGI
.@anildash @IStandWithAhmed we would love to have Ahmed visit us at MIT!
7:23 AM - 16 Sep 2015
687 687 Retweets 1,474 1,474 favorites
And his response...
Ahmed Mohamed ✔ @IStandWithAhmed
@IBJIYONGI @anildash I would love to!! MIT is my dream school.
9:30 AM - 16 Sep 2015
366 366 Retweets 1,241 1,241 favorites
pnwmom
(109,388 posts)No wonder he's looking for another school.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Once they make a mistake - they'd rather hold the bad faith line and make a dozen more
than admit they are wrong.
FOOLS running the school/system.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)just sayin.....
Look at GOP debate and go DUH...
Beowulf42
(228 posts)Fools running most of everything. IMHO
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Same with the corporate mentality these days...never, ever, no matter how bad a decisions, admit to it being wrong.
What the f*ck?? Where did that mentality come from?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)right now.
Igel
(35,892 posts)Insanity has.
This says, "If you scream loud and wail over some injustice that's not just all that great, we'll reward you."
And we positively reward exaggerating grievances.
At the same time, given human proclivities to not back down when challenged, we set up a nice dynamic of "do what we say, chumps, or we'll crush you." It's the ultimate "we hate dialog" move ... not by them, but those opposing them. Instead of finding a decent solution, the situation's escalated.
Lose-lose for society. Great for one, horrible for 100 million. Privatize gain, socialize loss.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)speaking truth to power seems to work pretty well and turned this mess into a successful rebuke of irrational policing
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)I'm going to reach out to people tomorrow...again
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I'd say that door closing may be the start of some amazing things.
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,730 posts)during the interview. I didn't catch her name, but she's an astrophysicist at MIT. You should have
seen Ahmed's eyes light up!
I watched the whole interview. This kid is geek, pure geek. Shy, reserved, well spoken, but not
given to lengthy answers. No um's, uh's, searching for words. Brief, concise answers to
Chris' questions.
This may be one of those situations where more good will come out of it than could ever have
been anticipated.
sarge43
(29,107 posts)Twenty or thirty years from now NASA announces the successful landing of its mobile probe on Titan. Mention is made that the success is due in great part to the complex, cutting edge electronic system designed by Dr Ahmed Mohamed.
At MacArthur HS, Irving TX the principal sighs, "We could have claimed him as a honor graduate." Karma whispers back, "Bite it, idiots."
mnhtnbb
(31,730 posts)aceofblades
(73 posts)From everything I've seen, ahmed would fit it quite well at my alma matter. His creative and inventive mind would be stimulated rather than spurned.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)woundedkarma
(498 posts)How wonderful for him!
The president and now MIT.
I'm so glad he's going to get a chance to follow his dreams. Nobody can stand in his way now, not with so many people standing with him.
Just as good we're showing a whole lot of young people that at many of us stand with them as well.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)as a result of one of what must be one of the most traumatic experiences of his young life!
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)I mean, how else are you gonna top the President & MIT?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)One ups
Kisses, who wants $20, a..dog..a pony.
.
Ahmed.... NASA makes him youngest astronaut ever,
.
MIT makes him a professor
.
Obama makes him head of Science (better than Inhofe type fools).
.
Then Queen of England marries him an makes him King