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Dear writers of TV shows and movies and books and fic and everything,

MIT grades on a 5.0 scale. So if your character had a 4.0 when they were at MIT, they were a B student, which is probably not what you are trying to convey. (However, if that *is* what you're trying to convey, then come over here, I would like to bake you some cookies as a token of my gratitude.)

And because it always bears repeating, you cannot graduate cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude, "with honors," "at the top of your class," or anything freaking else from MIT. No really, not even your super-special genius character. Seriously.

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Now that that's taken care of-- yay, Friday! We're going to get our tree tomorrow so we have to finish cleaning the house tonight. :)

Date: 2008-12-07 06:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brightcupenny.livejournal.com
Seriously, I could really do with a few more characters who are Really Quite Smart, but not Super Special Geniuses.

Date: 2008-12-09 05:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cran-apple.livejournal.com
You mean it's possible to be Really Quite Smart, but not a Super Special Genius? That you can contribute something important even if you aren't "top of the class" at MIT? Wow. Fiction has taught me wrong. *looks for self-esteem*

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