<p>MIT is renown for its harsh workload. Walk into a classroom and you can smell the the stench of stress in the air. Because MIT seems so stressful for many, I hypothesize that MIT students are of shorter stature than the average American under the assumption that height and stress are interrelated; can anybody attest?</p>
<p>I know 2 5’2" girls as well as 2 6’2" boys. what does it prove?</p>
<p>This is one of the stranger posts I’ve seen on this board, and that is saying something.</p>
<p>Girls have finished growing by college. </p>
<p>Many boys have as well. So it’s a moot point.</p>
<p>I’ve heard about being beat down by the work but i don’t think that this is what they were referring to…</p>
<p>I don’t even know that typical levels of stress in early childhood are known to affect adult height. And while MIT can be stressful, it’s certainly not like growing up in a low-quality orphanage or being starved as a toddler.</p>
<p>Getting inadequate sleep is tied to short stature. So an MIT workload while someone is still growing could stunt growth.</p>
<p>Coffee stunts growth… just sayin’</p>
<p>There are other variables that could affect height, for example, ethnicity. Or the amount of dairy intake.</p>
<p>Overall, I’d say the average height of an MIT undergrad is approximately 5’ 7".</p>
<p>^Are you averaging men and women together? That’s a little silly.</p>
<p>This is a pretty inane discussion to begin with…</p>
<p>This is not an inane question, Mr. President. Imagine a prospective college student (who has won gold medals in the USABO and USAMO), sifting through thousands of web pages to find a single college to suit his physical deficiency: short stature. And upon reading this thread, bam! He finds that that the average height of MIT students is lower than the average height at other colleges (like Harvard, where 6’'5 beasts are commonplace); he finds that at MIT, he will not be looked down on, literally, by his peers. It is at that moment our eager senior genius decides to apply EA to MIT. He gets accepted, matriculates, and studies at MIT for the next four years. Moreover, because of his encouraging entourage of short geniuses, he begins researching at Jacks Lab of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. Later that year, he discovers a key mutation that stops the development of cancer. Because of that discovery, thousands are saved from the wrath of cancer - all because a precocious high school shorty saw that at MIT, we don’t look down.</p>
<p>Indeed, that is the very reason I made this thread. My fourteen-year-old brother genius, Sheldon Souper, who proudly possesses an eidetic memory, is looking for a college which will suit his physical tastes. Despite his gold medals in USABO, USAMO, USNCO, and just about every other USAO, Sheldon is self-conscious. He shrinks in disgust when he is looked down, literally, and he would rather not have to deal with that kind of social stab. With this in mind, I hope you all will provide me, Lucy Souper, with the most up-to-date data on student stature at MIT - for the sake of Sheldon and all other self-conscious prospective college students.</p>
<p>Best ■■■■■ post by op ever haha</p>
<p>@Bananafreak2u Lol.</p>
<p>Hopefully at least one person on this thread understands the 5’ 7" thing here.</p>
<p>^Why? Is that the typical height of a ■■■■■? I’m confused.</p>
<p>1 smoot = 5’ 7"</p>
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