The blogosphere is abuzz with the story of one Star Simpson. She's the 19 year old MIT student arrested at Logan Airport with a device resembling a bomb strapped to her chest.
While I have to gasp audibly at the sheer idiocy of going to an airport with a fake bomb in plain sight, I can't say it surprises me. MIT students can sometimes be the phsyical embodiment of "All College, No Knowledge." Or, as Dave Barry puts it, they don't have the common sense that G-d gave gravel.
It is entirely possible that Ms. Simpson (D'oh!) really, honestly, and truly didn't think about her "art" looking like a bomb. I've met a fair amount of MIT students (Mrs. G.'s youngest sister graduated from MIT), and they are all EXTREMELY bright. Painfully so. However, as a sweeping generalization they are also very self-absorbed, intensely focused (like, to the complete and utter exclusion of the rest of reality if it doesn't pertain to their project-at-hand), and devoid of common sense.
This is not meant as a knock to MIT, excessively smart folk, or others in similar situations. Just my observation...
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She's just lucky some nervous cop didn't ventilate her dumb ass.
I agree with you. Brains but zero common sense.
I think she would've been okay if she hadn't been holding the play-doh... and from the story I read (who knows if it's true or not) she didn't have any explanation for the play-doh. *sigh*
She is indeed lucky she lived to talk about this.
She represents about 80% of the upper tiers of the blogosphere, though, doesn't she? Plenty of brains & book smarts but not enough common sense or normalcy to fill up a packet of Sweet & Low.
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