Nerd News: An Open Letter to College Freshmen

Pretty much, yeah.  There are some horrible people out there, even if they happen to be smart.  Intelligence is no guarantee that someone is not an evil troll.  I have to say, though, you will find some of your professors, lecturers, TAs, grad assistants, and instructors to be great people too -- but you have to figure out who's good and who's not and just how much of their opinions to take.  Imagine that -- you have to be a grown-up and exercise your own sober judgment!  Also: it takes some brain cells not to get sucked in whatever idiotic fad is current in campus culture.  THINK!  Oh, and if you ever, ever start thinking that Mao or Stalin was an OK kind of guy who's just been misunderstood, I will personally flunk your butt so fast you won't know what happened.