<p>Geez… that IS awful…</p>
<p>How about for a guy? Are we socially ok to say MIT? :)</p>
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<p>Well, he couldn’t have been that bad if you were making some conversation with him just before he walked out on you. Still, that’s uncalled for.</p>
<p>I think you have to be careful about when you say you go to MIT, no matter your gender or the situation. If the response is “Wow, you must be smart,” that’s a big old awkward conversation-ender.</p>
<p>But, in my experience, it’s a totally different situation to say you went to MIT when you’re talking with other recruits at a PhD recruitment weekend versus saying you went to MIT when you’re trying to make small talk while someone’s cutting your hair. It’s fine to say you go to MIT when it’s relevant. But when it’s not, it will look like you’re bragging.</p>
<p>Yeah, for the record, I usually avoid mentioning MIT because it usually gets awkward fast: “Oh, so are you like, a genius?” How exactly are you supposed to respond to that? I was never terribly worried about people judging me negatively because of it, but it has happened a couple of times (the most ridiculous of which I related above).</p>
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<p>Well, I guess that’s why you use the “a school in Boston” response and leave it at that. If they really, really want to know then you might as well mention it then.</p>
<p>Right – I don’t go to ridiculous extents to avoid saying it. If they persist in asking after “school in Boston,” I’m happy to tell them.</p>
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<p>Yeah, seriously. Most of the time I really don’t know how to respond after this…-_-</p>
<p>Any ideas? haha</p>
<p>This is the first time I have heard of an M-bomb but it is quite a hilarious concept. I personally do not like telling people I go to MIT. I will say I go to school in Boston then if they press me they get the prize of hearing the “M-bomb” haha.</p>
<p>Q: “Oh, so are you like, a genius?”
A: “Duh.”</p>
<p>@ BeKindRewind… “At least more so than yourself apparently” :D</p>
<p>hehe</p>
<p>have you seen 10 pounds with will smith, and the reaction once he reveals he attended MIT?</p>
<p>good stuff</p>
<p>Seven Pounds</p>
<p>^^I don’t know if that is what you meant, but I read somewhere that Will Smith was offered (not officially) an invite to MIT, but he declined it. Is this true?</p>
<p>Ha, then Robert Downey Jr. should have also for playing Tony Stark.</p>
<p>I meant academically when he was in high school.</p>
<p>yes he was admitted to something at mit, pretty interesting…and yea its 7 pounds sorry ;] i have dishonored smith</p>
<p>heres wiki claim</p>
<p>While it is widely reported that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he never applied to MIT,[9] although he was admitted to a “pre-engineering program” there.[10] According to Smith, “My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in. But I had no intention of going to college.”[11]</p>
<p>his mother attended Carnegie Mellon so you can imagine…what his parents thought</p>
<p>Maybe Smith was admitted to MITES? (I don’t know if MITES was in existence in the early 1980’s)</p>
<p>^Hey I wonder if this program was MITES or something.
(whoa ditto^)</p>
<p>As much as I want to go to MIT, I would say that Will Smith made the right career choice in the end by not considering MIT or any other college.</p>
<p>Hipeople, we must think alike. MITES was started in 1975 so that probably was it.</p>
<p>Also just finished reading the novel, “Replay” by Ken Grimwood which references MIT. </p>
<p>The main character keeps waking up after he dies to a time 20 years earlier when he is a student at Emory. After reliving the next 20 years over again (but with all his previous knowledge of what happened before- kind of like the Bill Murray movie “Groundhog Day”), it happens again and again with differing outcomes each “replay” as he tries to change things he knows are predestined. During one replay of his life he decides to go public and seek the advice of MIT and Princeton physicists, whom he believes are the most knowledgeable physicists in the world about the time-space continuum.</p>
<p>Hey astrophysicsdude: does MIT actually offer that as a major, or are you just interested in it and taking classes?</p>