research: it ain't gonna kill you

[jaina]

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. :)

Comments

[cran-apple.livejournal.com]

Or like when House gives people fMRI scans and there is no head coil (the thing they put around your head before they slide you into the scanner). I mean, I guess they like for the drama to be able to see the patients face as they go it/come out, but seeing as my undergrad thesis involved building a head coil, I can't help but be irked :-P

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling I would enjoy House much less if I knew the first thing about medicine, so I am happy to be ignorant. ;-)