Massachusetts Institute of Technology Top Questions

MIT students are known as being socially awkward or geeky.

Everyone thinks that MIT students are ugly. People also think we are losers with nothing better to do than homework.

Stereotypical MIT students are pretty nerdy; they do things most people would consider weird, but other MIT students find quite entertaining. Hackers I think provide a pretty accurate description of the typical MIT student.

People think we are all super smart geniuses who wear thick glasses and pocket protectors and have no social skills to speak of. We scribble calculations on any scrap of paper we can find and lock ourselves in our room, emerging only to turn in our homework. Of course, in the movies, we end up saving the world anyway :)

That we're all anti-social nerds with no fashion sense or conversational skills. Crazy kids who explode stuff, design new chemicals and will drop out to start a company.

that we're super smart and know everything, that everyone is Asian, that we have no communication skills or that we're not personable at all, all we do is study and work, that there are no parties at all, that we all don't shower and wear glasses

The main stereotype of students at MIT is that all we do is study and stay in our rooms 24/7. There is another stereotype that MIT students are ugly and socially awkward. This feeds into the last widely-held stereotype that I know of, which is that MIT students don’t have relationships. The only other stereotype I can think of, which is really only held by students in the immediate area, is that MIT students drink large quantities of alcohol.

MIT students are said to be nerdy, mostly male, socially inept, computer-obsessed, and smart. MIT as a school is said to be very hard, prestigious, and innovative with an ugly campus and a very strong community.

The typical MIT student wears a pocket protector and spends more time worrying about work than believed to be possible. A typical MIT student has a hard time speaking, communicating, and articulating thoughts. He/she is far from athletic and has no passions except engineering.

Nerdy, Very socially awkward, unathletic, geeky.