Why STS?  Why not?

       

        College is for learning – about life, about self, about the world around us – but at a place like MIT, we often forget to look up once in a while and take note of the actual happenings of society.  My brain, like so many others, spends hours upon days analyzing and studying the molecular levels of engineering and science.  We yearn to understand the intricacies of torque and fluid dynamics; we measure and calculate and experiment with cells and screws and numbers and heat coefficients.  We’re inundated with problems of heterozygous genotypes, material resistances, flow distribution over networks, beam strength, design logic.  But in the end, in the big picture, what does all this mean?  What is all this really about?