Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pros: Reputation for rigorous teaching helps open doors.
Cons: Failure to develop social/emotional skills closes those same doors.

This page is based on my experience at MIT at the undergraduate school, as opposed to the graduate school, which is a very different environment. In particular, undergraduates often arrive needing both intellectual and social development, whereas ...

Pros: prestige, undergraduate research opportunities, connections...
Cons: tuition, lack of undergrad support, changing campus

As a fairly recent graduate, I'm going to try to take you through the pros and cons as well as I can and help you understand why I think MIT is a great place -- for some -- but why I cannot recommend it to everyone in general. Here's What MIT Can ...

Pros: world-renown university of technology...great for advanced thinking, right by big big BOSTON!
Cons: expensive (but that can change with fin.aid), some people are geeky (it all depends where you live, where you decide to hang out...)

Although I personally am not afiliated with MIT (well, im only 13...), my brother is currently enrolled there, and I know many other people who go to MIT as well. (This review may sound a little like my review on Harvard...but too bad, because the...

Pros: Undergraduate access to professors and research, highly demanding and accommodating of the gifted
Cons: Stuck in industrial era model, overly caters to government, sucks life out of the students

ivory tower - A place or an attitude of retreat, especially preoccupation with lofty, remote, or intellectual considerations rather than practical everyday life.
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Pros: MIT has made a huge move in offering all courses free on the Web.
Cons: There are no cons.

MIT is to be congratulated for taking the future of the Web
into consideration and encouraging all of its 900 or so professors to offer free in c-space all courses of one of the world's most distinguished
academic institutions.

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Pros: Learn while working with other students
Cons: I spent 40+ hrs a week, it became my life, I loved it.

In 1994 and 1995 I was a member of MIT's Solar Car Team (Solar-Electric Vehicle Team SEVT). During that time I worked on the car's chassis, body, and when they let me electronics. Involvement with the team was one of my fondest memories of being at the...

Pros: Great education; opens doors
Cons: It's a lot of work folks

I am an alumnus who graduated with an S.B. in mechanical engineering in 1991 and an S.M. in materials science in 1993. The best aspect of an MIT education is the high intellectual caliber of the student body. After all, the engineering programs at...

Pros: Incredible opportunities and resources, best overall education
Cons: tons of work can be painful at times

There's a saying around "the 'Tute" that getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a fire hose. It sounds painful but it's only true because the resources, classes, activities, and opportunities available in the school are beyond what...

Pros: Great hands-on experience, Incredible learning experience
Cons: Lots of hard work, very technical program

The Mechanical Engineering department at MIT is the best education in design that you can find. It’s also a well-rounded program in mechanical engineering that covers all of the important areas. The basics you have to take include materials, stress...

Pros: Unparalleled in academic excellence. Home of the most amazing students in the world.
Cons: Not for weak of heart. You will work...Hard.

As a tour guide at MIT for the last two years of time there as an undergraduate, I could go on and on about the pros and cons of attending, about the concerns people typically expressed, etc... That will take me forever, and this is not the best forum,...

Pros: Boston is a great place for college students!
Cons: Boston is cold and dreary or hot and muggy!

Boston in general is great place to go to school. It has so much to offer--culture, diversity, history, etc. MIT, while a tough academic environment, is itself a great place to study--for the same reasons that Boston is great.

Don't be fooled,...

Pros: Hundreds of choices, passionate participants
Cons: Some participants you may not want to meet!

MIT is one of the strangest places on Earth. It's a collection of people with nothing in common other than they understand math. Not math the class or even the eccentricities, but math the language.

There are many opinions about whether the...

Pros: Top-notch education, stimulating conversations, well-rounded life possible
Cons: Grueling, expensive, occasionally demoralizing.

Ha! Betcha never knew the 'Tute gives a Music degree!

Well, it does. Ironically, however, MIT does not grant any "Arts" degrees, so my diploma reads Bachelor of Science in Music. There was actually nothing scientific about my...

Pros: Best engineering school in the country
Cons: You work your ass off here

MIT, where the unofficial student motto is "IHTFP" (the first two letters stand for "I HATE" and the last two letters stand for "This Place"), is unparalleled in both the engineering education you receive and the amount of...

Pros: Once you get in you're golden.
Cons: Tough admissions process, lots of people don't make it

At the time of writing this opinion, I have no affiliation with the Admissions department or with the Educational Council. This, I am probably able to offer more of an objective view of admissions into MIT.

I often get asked by many people...