<p>Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but there is a TERRIFIC article on student life at MIT in this month's issue of Discover magazine. I highly recommend it!</p>
<p>May 05? What's it called?</p>
<p>Carolyn - I just went to the newsstand and looked for this. I didn't see anything in the May 2005 issue about MIT. Is the June issue out? Is it buried in an article about something else? Could it be a different magazine?</p>
<p>I confirm that it's not in the May issue, I think it's in the soon-to-be-delivered June issue.</p>
<p>We got it today, it is in the June 2005 issue of "Discover", pages 36-43: <em>A double-blind, random, case-controlled, clinical, and thoroughly unscientific study of ... MIT NERDS</em>
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And there's a pretty good case to be made that whatever the students on the MIT campus are intersted in at this moment will utterly change our lives again in about a decade... No one seems to be normal at MIT.
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Said in a good way, of course!</p>
<p>Fun article -- not online yet at the discover.com website, but it's only a matter of time.</p>
<p>It's online!</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the article... even if it did call me and my west campus-ness "normal in a disparaging way."</p>
<p>Does it bug anybody else that all outside articles about MIT apparently must mention either a) suicide or b) the alcohol-related death of fraternity pledge Scott Krueger?</p>
<p>meh, it's a somewhat cute article but not, in my opinion, representative of MIT in general. I guess people like to focus on EC because it's the image of what comes to mind when you say MIT.</p>
<p>interesting. i think i actually know every single person quoted/mentioned in that article, and am close friends with 3/4s. and they talked about things that weren't EC, also.</p>
<p>given that the suicides and the Krueger suit/FOC have pretty much defined MIT student life for, oh, the past decade, at least, it's hardly surprising they make it into <em>every</em> article. but no, you're not the only one who's irritated by it.</p>