Title: learning to be human
Product review: It's interesting to see the binary response readers/reviewers have given this book -- like an inverted bell curve. For my part, I'd say that the picture painted of MIT's graduate program is pretty repellent, but the very things that repel are also a source of the school's strength. Maybe civilization needs places like this and Caltech -- but you wouldn't necessarily come out of the experience a better person. To his credit I think White does emerge a better person, and that makes the story interesting. For those who haven't read the book, I'll just say keep an eye on the peripheral figures. They are more important than you think at first -- and more important than White initially thought, too.
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