Massachusetts Institute of Technology Top Questions

What is the stereotype of students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

Ash

All geeks, lack of social skills, very smart, all experts on computers, math, and sciences.

Casey

There's the stereotype that MIT means tons of homework, and the students are nerds and spend most of their time studying.

Andy

NERDS

Michael

We are all dorks with no life.

Ashley

We're boring, nerdy people. We hug our calculators more than we talk to people. We don't have any atheletes because we spend all our time studying.

ari

workaholics extreme social outliers

Gene

I'm not that aware of stereotypes about MIT made by the outside world. I know that there is a strong stereotype that MIT students are all really smart / engineering/science-type / motivated, which mostly tends to be true.

Jenn

That we're all nerds, we lack social skills, we're weird, etc. Stereotypes about MIT are that it is way too hard, students never get sleep, students are ugly, no one plays sports.

Wally

They are GOOD in numbers.

Emmerson

no social capability