<p>MIT has changed a lot since this guy went there. In the two years I've gone to MIT I've never pulled an all nighter. As a matter of fact I've never worked past 1 AM while I've been here. Maybe I'm doing things right, but I think the soul-crushing MIT people fondly loved to hate of decades back has managed to lighten up, MIT hasn't even had a undergrad suicide (their big problem in the 90s) since the highly publicized ones back in the early part of this decade.</p>
<p>In addition to this MIT has developed a rather healthy social scene even, ever since BU started to crack down on alcohol and MITs frats happen to be smack dab in the middle of their campus, parties with a wide variety a lady-friends (ranging from BU to Simmons to Wellesly) to get to know have become increasingly available.</p>
<p>MIT is not for everyone its true, I know two people who are taking semesters off because their GPA was taking too much of a beating, and one who was asked to leave due to perrentially horrible grades, but overall almost everyone I know manages to get along with the institute if they don't straight up love it here. But that's just my perspective.</p>