<p>captain scruffy wrote:</p>
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<p>What the hell? No offense, but MIT actually has girls? And a sports program? You just blew my mind...</p>
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<p>haha! to be honest - my thoughts exactly!!</p>
<p>this has been the funniest tangent on any thread yet...</p>
<p>but i'll go one better:</p>
<p>i got a joke. want to hear it?</p>
<p>it goes like this:</p>
<p>caltech cheerleading.</p>
<p>(to our dear mollie: no offense at all - it's just the association of "girl" and "MIT" to the average joe is almost an oxymoron...)</p>
<p>Yeah but the average Joe isn't aware of the fact that MIT has a pretty darn close to 50:50 male/female ratio. I think when I was thinking about going there for undergrad, it was maybe 46:54?</p>