"... "We're not gonna kid ourselves -- we're all nerds," Johnson said. "But we can play a little ball, too." ..."
" ... "I figured these [MIT] kids probably can't even shoot a free throw," Bartolotta said.
But his parents insisted he send a tape to MIT and encouraged him to keep an open mind. When he visited the campus, he was quickly sold. He loved the coaching staff, and the opportunity to play right away. He also was pleasantly surprised by the players. "Those stereotypes started breaking down," Bartolotta said. "The team really seemed like down-to-earth, regular people, and they could play."
Bartolotta has gone on to become MIT's all-time leading scorer, with more than 2,000 career points. But he's not just a basketball standout. Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences. This semester, he's taking an advanced health economics seminar, an advanced macroeconomics class, an earth atmosphere and planetary science seminar, and two physics classes -- one on the history of physics in the 20th and 21st centuries and one on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.
Oh, and his GPA? A 4.6 on a 5.0 scale. ..."
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