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So I'm sitting here with four problem sets this week hanging over my head, planning on pulling an all-nighter to plan a protest against the administration's plans to eliminate an important aspect of student life (dorm rush), in desperate need of caffeine, and I haven't had decent food in a week.
Yet I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be. This place is absolutely amazing. Don't come here if you want to be coddled and have grade-inflation and administrators holding your hand all the time. Come here if you want to make your own decisions and work harder than you ever have in your life. Because if you put in the work, this place will give back more to you than you could ever imagine.
I have been able to learn more here than I ever thought possible. I have been able to acheive amazing things working through student groups. I look around at the faces of people in my dorm and I see thinkers, builders, artists, theorists, and great engineers. I know these people will one day change the world, or at least their own little part of it. Yet these same people are the ones I flirt with, pull pranks and hacks with, complain about workload with, order middle of the night pizza with. It's mindblowing. The diversity of culture here is fantastic--you can choose where you live. There's really a sense of community with where you live; it's not just a bunch of people living together. There's an option for everyone: the French speaker, the "cool kids" from high school, the pyromaniacs, the raging liberal hippies, the serious student, the serious drinker, whatever.
The professors are generally quite accessible. As a freshman, I took classes with Chomsky, the guy who discovered the world's oldest rock, and the guy who discovered Uranus' rings. One of my classes was only 2 people. Getting UROPs (research jobs, $8.75/hr to start) is ridiculously easy; I emailed a prof saying I was interested in what he was doing, and within a week I was hired.
Don't apply to MIT unless you love math and science and engineering. It doesn't matter that MIT is ranked in the top 10 or 5 or whatever it is now in USNWR. It matters that you get the best possible education for you--and someone put off by the number of math and science requirements should not be applying to MIT. If you want a broad, Ivory Tower liberal arts education, try the little school up-chuck. If you want to be around some of the best minds in the country and want to analytically look at the problems in today's world (yes, engineering problems but social problems as well), this may be the place for you. MIT is idiosyncratic, so visit before you decide.
I Love This Fucking Place. | Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: D+ |  | | |
| | Feb 19 2003 | 1st Year Female --
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| Bright | MIT is not for everyone. If you are coming here for the prestige, then you would more then likely be happier at another school. MIT does have a few regular Joes and Janes, but a good number of students here were the top of their high school class; won national or regional science/math competitions; built robots when they were twelve; and so forth. Then they come to MIT and realize that they are just another face in the crowd. Some students find this a relief, others depressing. The course-work is hard, even those who major in the Humanities are required to take a year of Calculus and a year of Physics. Think of MIT as akin to going through SEAL training; you will be pushed to your absolute limits, and then pushed some more. If you stick with it, in the end you will know that you are one of the best. Receiving straight A's in high school is one thing, but here it is not that common. While it does happen from time to time most students receive B's and C's. If you strive for perfection, then you would be best served somewhere else. That sounds contradictory, but an unwritten mantra at MIT is that they expect you to fail, at something. The logic being that you learn from your mistakes and failure breeds perseverance. | Innovation: A+, Campus Aesthetics: C | | | |
| | Aug 02 2008 | 2nd Year Male --
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| Bright | MIT is a great place to get a truly valuable education, but you need to put the work in to get something out of it. And if you're going to MIT and not putting the work in, you probably won't be going to MIT for very long. The coursework is challenging, but that's also what helps make MIT great. Every problem has a meaning and a bearing on understanding the course material. All that being said, MIT won't kill you as long as you MANAGE YOUR TIME. Learn to schedule properly and don't take on more than you can handle, especially not your first semester. If you plan your work out right, you should have ample time for extracurriculars and social activities. You might not have as much time as your friends at other schools, but if you're just studying all the time, you're doing something wrong. Don't let the workload scare you off from MIT; rather, see it as a challenge. You'll get so much more out of an MIT education than you will at a "party school" or some place where learning is not the fundamental virtue. And also understand that even though MIT is focused on science, technology, and engineering, it has a fantastic school of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, and you will have to complete distributive requirements in the humanities much like you would at a liberal arts college. MIT's mission is NOT to produce culturally illiterate, out-of-touch scientists and engineers. On the contrary, MIT works to ensure every student gets a broad education in various forms of communication and humanities-based studies. So take advantage of not only MIT's great science and engineering, but also humanities! | Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: B | | | |
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| Quite Bright | MIT is a world not unlike every other: there are frat boys and sorority girls, there are athletes, there are nerds and geeks, and there is a large majority of normal, cool people. But they all know differential equations. If you can get over never being the smartest person in the room again, you'll be fine. | Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: B | | | |
| | Jul 28 2008 | 2nd Year Male --
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