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<p>Yeah, this is my thought too. I’m not surprised or bothered that people are surprised, but I’m annoyed at the un-witty attempts to be clever that are based around the presumption that for geeks to play sports is weird.</p>
<p>It’s not just sports, either - I’ve seen/heard similar stupid comments about MIT having fraternities and sororities, or MIT having parties, or MIT having people who are interested in and/or good at the arts (other than classical music) or MIT having humanities majors. And in all cases, it’s not the surprise that is stupid, it’s the particular way of joking about it.</p>