Now we know that MIT students can be a bit geeky, but even my freshman year roommate at engineering school (who at the time help up a plaid shirt and check pants) would not wear a circuit board. It seems like the home-made descrambler that they use at MIT to get the fashion channel must be on the fritz.

Once, again, Boston has been subjected to a bomb scare concerning an odd circuit board.

Star Simpson, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, was arrested at gunpoint Friday morning at Logan Airport when authorities suspected she had a bomb strapped to her chest.

Simpson was wearing a black sweatshirt that had a circuit board with wires, green LED lights and a 9-volt battery attached to it. When an airport employee asked about her shirt, Simpson walked away without answering so the employee called the authorities, the Boston Globe has reported.

The back of Simpson’s sweatshirt said “socket to me…Course VI,” a reference to MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science program.Simpson is a second-year student in the electrical engineering and computer science department of MIT’s School of Engineering, according to the MIT Web site.

It is unclear whether Simpson was wearing the circuit board sweatshirt to intentionally provoke an incident.

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