<p>MIT has always been a school that is great to be * from , but not necessarily to be * at *, if you catch my drift. It's like military bootcamp. I am quite sure that no soldiers actually * enjoy bootcamp, instead they just exhibit different levels of tolerance for it.</p>
<p>The real question is whether you can put up with a certain sense of delayed gratification, along with whether you think you can make it at all. If the answer is 'no' to either, then maybe you are better off elsewhere.</p>