Engineering schools still have the bones of being military academies. Selecting for people who don't need a lot of sleep is important to militaries. MIT, unlik

Engineering schools still have the bones of being military academies. Selecting for people who don't need a lot of sleep is important to militaries. MIT, unlike say, Texas A&M, was founded as a polytechnic and not as an explicit military academy but I'd bet there's still some of that orientation in its DNA.