Maybe MIT was the friends we made along the way?
In high school my friends nicknamed me Tony Stark. To them I was a bit brash, loud, and loved tinkering with technology. Each of my friends in my friend group also named themselves after an Avenger, because it was one of our favorite pieces of media. We would even mail each other letters with our Avenger nicknames written on them; it was a respite over the mundane piles of schoolwork that we had to do during the week. It was all fun and games until my parents would read who the letter was addressed to. Tony Stark was a boy's name. I'm not a boy, am I? Why can't it be a girl's name? I could spend all day recounting about my high school days and how I didn't get along with my parents, how strict they were, how annoyed I was, and how we just didn't see eye-to-eye on many issues. And for the record, the answers to the questions above are: Yes I'm aware, no I'm not, and because I don't want it to be. Tony Stark is a smart-ass, Tony Stark gets to b...