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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Engineering Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Looking back, MIT wasn't all it's hyped up to be. If I had it to do again, I likely would choose to go to a different school. That's not to say that MIT is all bad. It does have a great extracurricular program, the people there are great, I made a lot of close friends there, and learned a lot. The problem is the stress and pressure you're under while you're there. Pressure is a good thing in the right doses, but MIT takes it too far. The majority of students at the school are broken down, and 90% of the conversations I had with other students were all about the amount of work we had to do and how stressed out we were. During my four years there, I had one friend kill himself, had another friend try multiple times, and two friends had nervous breakdowns and had to go home. That being said, if you can survive the pressure, the prestige of the school will help you out a lot after graduation. Starting Job: Staff Engineer, Preparedness: D, Reputation: A Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Sep 12 2004 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=12144&uid=585'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Engineering Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright MIT instills an analytical and problem-solving mindset. The things I learned about the iron-carbon phase diagram may no longer matter to me, but MIT has done me well. Business school was a breeze by comparison. Starting Job: research engineer, Motorola, Preparedness: -, Reputation: - Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Jan 16 2002 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=1413&uid=585'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Political Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant I had a fantastic time at MIT. It's really, really intense and you have to be extremely driven and love technical subjects. If that describes you, you'll have a great time. It's also a great party school, believe it or not. The dorms are all very different from each other, some with typical college life, some really nerdy, some with lots of hardcore partying. This makes it a place where it's easy to find people who are similar to you, assuming that you are generally smart and like math.MIT is pretty nice in terms of things like having an open campus even at night, not forcing dining plans upon you even in your first year, not caring if you drill holes into walls of the older dorms and explode things in the courtyard, etc. Education Quality: A+, Innovation: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 14 2010 5th Year Female -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=70306&uid=585'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save  Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 ... 36    Next

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