MIT Nerds

The kids who make to MIT are nerds. And proud of it. While they have led quiet, socially isolated lives before arriving at MIT -- when they got there, they found a university teeming with people just like themselves. Smart, eccentric, craving challenges, and incredible under stress. MIT's grads have gone on to change the world. You may not know who they are, but there is a great likelihood that some part of your day touches on something dreamt up by an MIT grad. Read an excellent profile of the MIT student at Discover magazine -- and if you've ever made a nerd's life miserable -- or are thinking about doing it again -- think twice. It would be like a gnat laughing at a human for not being a gnat.