<p>OK meen.. pls calm down.. I know the MIT pride. and thats true.</p>
<p>I am a high school mathematics teacher in South Korea. I have a child, he turned down the MIT and he now ranks in the first ten in his institution.</p>
<p>WELL.. I am not a bad guy who envy MIT students. What we discuss here (at school) with my companions.. is that studying undergraduate at MIT is both ridiculous and unnecessary unless you are superintelligent. MIT does not give the best undergraduate education! tough does not mean the best thats obvious . I dont want students to go to MIT for undergrad and to go crazy.. most of them have the potential to be number ones in other colleges. SO that the level of other institutions will increase. What makes a University better is the quality of students.</p>
<p>IN short, I dont want students who really have limitless potentials to go to MIT and to become nerds (I know this from experiences not from the stereotypes). I want these students to attend another less competitive (relatively) colleges to be able to use all of their potentials. Taking a superquality undergrad education, they may enter the MIT or any other Univiersity. High school is not enough for institutions to chose the best matches but after an undergrad degree, selection process may work more effectively.</p>
<p>This is my personal opinion. you may reply if you want I wont argue with anyone on this site. BUt I will continue to post messages with my objective. I will try to change students mind who does not really deserve to study undergrad at MIT.</p>
<p>You are welcome to your opinion, "thebio-engineer", but you are completely full of it. You know nothing of this school, nothing of the students who study there, and you are wasting people's time.</p>
<p>Thanks for telling us about your initial lies. (BME student? NASHVILLE? Nice try.) Now we know it's worthwhile for several of us to follow you around and refute all your posts with actual facts and humorous interjections at your expense.</p>
<p>Jeez, the things we do to keep people honest around here. You probably have a good brain on your shoulders: why not use it for something CONSTRUCTIVE instead of something absurdly annoying and meaningless? </p>
<p>Something tells me even your post in this thread may be filled with non-truths. Folks, you heard it here from the horse's mouth: his sole purpose is to convince you not to go to MIT, even if he has to lie to do it. There is something fishy here, and you'd be well advised to ignore anything he posts.</p>
<p>I can only speak for myself and my friends, but I know that all MIT students aren't "nerds" in the typical sense. What defines an MIT student isn't nerdiness per se, but a passion for finding things out.</p>
<p>I know for myself, I wouldn't be the person I am if I hadn't come to MIT. In a less-challenging environment, I wouldn't have been motivated to work as hard, and I certainly wouldn't have been the top student at Ohio State (the school I was planning to attend if I hadn't been accepted at MIT). I only realized my full potential as a student by coming to MIT and being challenged.</p>
<p>I don't really know how to address the "going crazy" aspect -- clearly I am not crazy, nor are my friends and classmates. That's all I have to say about that.</p>
<p>It's not easy to get into graduate school at MIT (or institutions of similar caliber) by going to a less-competitive school and doing well. In terms of numbers, there are plenty of people who did well in state schools applying to the top programs, but relatively fewer people who went to HYPMSC. And the admissions standards for those of us who went to difficult schools just isn't as high -- I have a 3.5 GPA at MIT, and the professors who are helping me with my application assure me that I'm a strong candidate for all of the programs to which I'm applying. Someone with a 3.5 from state school, in contrast, is not in such a good position. Getting into graduate school isn't about having a warm and fuzzy feeling about the quality of your education -- it's about doing research in your chosen field. And it's very easy to get research jobs as an undergrad at MIT. QED.</p>
<p>I have to admit I'm a bit amused that you purport to distinguish between students who deserve to study at MIT and those who don't deserve the opportunity. I have a feeling some of the other people on this site (namely the Bens!) will take exception with this.</p>
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I am studying bio-engineering at MIT, unfortunately. I was accepted to Penn and JHU as well but I have chosen MIT (the most charismatic school as u said). But I did wrong.
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<p>wow, your post and your bio don't match at all..</p>
<p>I agree with moot. You say you learned from experience, yet you didn't even attend the institute, nor did you son. What, you know some MIT grads? If you've had any bad experiences with them, I'd say it was because you had these stereotypes in mind, and they disliked you for it.</p>
<p>So many people complain, but who are the people who figure out a way to fix it? More often than not, they're people from institutes like MIT. And they're actual people with personalities and passions.</p>
<p>I have some advice for you: do your research. Before you call people machines, check out the MITBlogs, or even, visit the campus.</p>
<p>Some people want to learn science, and that's great. They can go to a number of other schools and improve those schools' calibers. But some people want to make a difference, and these are the people MIT nurtures, and grants them the resources to do. In fact, you'll notice that that's what separates the top science schools in the country from the second tier. Both may provide an exceptional science education, but the ones that truly shine are the ones that gear you to go on, to discover, to innovate, and to make a difference.</p>
<p>[EDIT: AAaand I was beaten by Mollie... but she knows way more than I do, so you all should scroll up and read her post again. :P]</p>
<p>Doubtful, people from Caltech seem to be rational human beings. Plus, Caltech is first and foremost a research institute, which means at the very least the students there know how to do their research...</p>
<p>... something which the poster in question seems to lack.</p>
<p>sr6622, read the post from "thebio-engineer" starting at #5 on this thread, and continue on through the responses from benjones and molliebatmit, and you'll see that nothing in the poster's bio, details, or purported 'facts' add up. And since he now states above that he was lying on that thread anyway, we have no reason to believe anything about what he says. I'm voting troll.</p>
<p>I think that your comments are based on jealousy, thebio-engineer. I am especially disgusted at your comment on achieving potentials. I think that going to a less competitive school will only inhibit one's potential.</p>
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<p>When Trinity catches wind of you, you're done dude.</p>
<p>wow you guys just pounced all over him
so if this guy isnt legitimate and evaluated my stats and said i was MIT-bound...ill need some second opinions i guess huh?</p>