So, what's Mensa really like.

[beckyzoole]

My friend Joan-who-does-not-have-an-LJ has made a great post about Mensa in her blog, BunsOfStrudel.

If you've never been to a Regional Gathering and wonder what it's like, read her post about "the last socially smelly sock at the bottom of my nerd hamper", Mensa membership!

Comments

[kajiracad]

thanks for sharing that. it was a good read. i passed it along to some M&Ms i know. they'll enjoy it too.

i'm pretty much likely to be on that mythical fishing trip, but without the fan-girl gush for mensa-specific socials.

i'm one of the lucky ones: my support group(s) exist outside of the mensa label. i joined mensa mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. i already knew i could get in, i just wondered if i "needed" to meet more smart people. i didn't.

all in all, smart people (like all subgroups) are still people with all the same kinds of smoothness and all the same kinds of lumpy parts.

[mommyathome]

I just have to wonder how many will get the Irving, 142nd fastest gun in the west reference (When You're in Love The Whole World is Jewish - brilliant, my parents used to have that on vinyl)

Mensa is for pseudo intellectuals

[sharpnova]

I've often thought that Mensa membership has an interesting similarity to the lottery. It's essentially a tax on people below a certain threshold of intelligence. Granted, the threshold for Mensa membership is an IQ somewhat higher than the threshold for buying lottery tickets, but it's an upper bound nonetheless.

I've asked a few members what the meetings are like. As I suspected, there was a lot of theological and political debate. While I can almost forgive the trite, tiring, unoriginal wash of textbook regurgitation of the former, the latter in my opinion is a topic of interest only among fools and pseudo intellectuals. (Whether those groups are disjoint is up to you).