<p>Well, as you may know, the movie was obviously set at MIT and in the Boston area, along with Las Vegas. </p>
<p>After seeing that film, I really wished I had applied to MIT. Though I probably didn't have a chance in, my scores were slightly low for MIT standards, I will always wonder, what if? The other problem for me was that I didn't want to leave California due to the sunny weather and for financial purposes (cal grant). I will be happy going to Stanford, as an engineering major, in the fall, but that movie really makes you re-think things. </p>
<p>I know this post is sort of random, but, did anyone else who saw this movie get a feeling like this, assuming you DIDNT apply?</p>
<p>Err, I don't think any of the movie was shot at MIT. Some was shot in Boston, for sure (they closed the Harvard bridge for it, for instance), but I don't think filming occurred on campus.</p>
<p>My son (accepted EA for the Fall) and I saw the movie last night. He wore an MIT T-shirt. As well sat down, a man turned around, looked at him, and handed him something - his 1958 "Brass Rat" (class ring)! He said if he applied today, MIT would never accept him. The movie itself was OK, more about gambling and Las Vegas than Boston/MIT.</p>
<p>I applied and did NOT get a feeling like that.</p>
<p>At one party over the weekend, "There was ALMOST a girl there!"
Nobody but the main character and professor knew the Monty Hall problem in a fourth-year math class.
That fourth-year math class had like 40 people in it.
Jill Taylor is supposed to be really attractive and seductive, indicated by the guys' oogling, but I did not find it so.
None of the filming was on MIT's campus.
Card counting in reality only produces a 1% bias against the house.
Everything was unconvincing.</p>
<p>"Jill Taylor is supposed to be really attractive and seductive, indicated by the guys' oogling, but I did not find it so."</p>
<p>After 4 years at MIT, you would find her attractive. She would be the hottest girl there.</p>
<p>"None of the filming was on MIT's campus."</p>
<p>The exterior was MIT. I recognized a lot of the campus, especially when they were walking around outside. Even though the interior was Boston U., I thought they did a good job making it look like it could have been MIT. For instance, the door to the meeting room had 4-163 on it or something like that--the room numbers look like that at MIT and even the door looked like an MIT door with that opaque/translucent type of glass (don't know what you call it.) </p>
<p>"Card counting in reality only produces a 1% bias against the house."
This is the same system that they used in real life. It probably is more than 1% bias, because the so-called "big players" only start playing when the count is a certain number.</p>
<p>-- Nobody but the main character and professor knew the Monty Hall problem in a fourth-year math class./That fourth-year math class had like 40 people in it.
"Solutions to non-linear equations" sounds a lot like Algebra II to me, I couldn't figure out why he was taking it as a senior (seeing as it isn't even offered at MIT). Newton's method was scribbled all over the board, what gives? That's not like MIT at all.</p>
<p>-- Jill Taylor is supposed to be really attractive and seductive, indicated by the guys' oogling, but I did not find it so.
If you saw Jill Taylor at MIT you'd look twice.</p>
<p>-- None of the filming was on MIT's campus.
Exterior was all MIT, interior BU. Can you imagine them shutting down the infinite to film a movie? The students would be furious.</p>
<p>-- Card counting in reality only produces a 1% bias against the house.
Just sit at the table when it's hot.</p>
<p>The movie was just that, a movie. Mildly entertaining and good in that it'll spark more interest into the REAL story of the blackjack team.</p>
<p>"The movie was just that, a movie. Mildly entertaining and good in that it'll spark more interest into the REAL story of the blackjack team."</p>
<p>Yeah, I highly recommend the book, "Bringing Down the House."
I thought the movie was pretty close to the real story, except for the professor character and the insertion of Harvard into the story. I don't want to give anything away about the plot.</p>
<p>I respectfully disagree. The book was WAAAY more detailed about what really went down, including their foray to gamble in Monte Carlo and on riverboats in the south, as well as their relationships with each other and what they did with the money they made. The book is so much better than the movie.</p>
<p>I actually would have LOVED to have the movie filmed on-campus...okay yes, it would have been a hassle - but that's why there are weekends. Seriously, they shut down the Harvard bridge for a day and people survived; I think there would have been a way to make filming at MIT work. But that's just my personal opinion and I'm just one student.</p>
<p>Anyway, Snively's right about everything else - especially the bit about the Monty Hall problem and the math class, that was really ridiculous. (Snively and I both learned Newton's Method last semester in 18.02, the very first math class either of us took at MIT.)</p>
<p>The party picture is from an annual, very well-attended party at one of MIT's five sororities, by the way; I also went to it and thought it was fantastic...attractive girls (and guys) aplenty! Please don't try to dispute this fact - I am a nineteen-year-old male and I know how to judge. I could give you photographic evidence but I'm not sure my friends would appreciate me putting their Facebook photos on CC.</p>
<p>In general, the vast majority of MIT students are happily-adjusted people who happen to be, among other things, a) fairly smart and b) enjoy nerdy jokes more than most. Do we have some "awkward" people, some "awkward" parties, many "awkward" moments? Do we have people with perfect GPAs, who spend countless hours building robots? Of course we do, and we're not ashamed to admit it. But the portrayal of MIT students in the movie was, on the whole, very inaccurate and completely Hollywood.</p>
<p>The book Bringing Down the House is quite entertaining. Its author Ben Mezrich is a Harvard graduate. Bringing Down the House made the New York Times bestseller.</p>
<p>I concur with the fact that none of "21" was filmed at MIT. I can't cite any source b/c I don't remember where I read it but yeah, definitely not filmed at MIT. Anyway I didn't know it was out yet! I knew it was coming out around this time but wow I really have to see it!</p>
<p>I actually have a personally signed copy of the book "Bringing Down the House" (the book based on the same story that "21" is based on). My step-mom met the author at some conference they were both attending and she told him about me and my passion for math. So he wrote a note to me and signed it. I wanted to go to MIT but unfortunately didn't get accepted. But it was my own fault...I went to MITES which gave me SUCH a good shot of being accepted but my grades senior year sucked. They even waitlisted me to give me a chance to improve the grades. I ended up not improving my grades so therefore I was rejected. It's okay though because there are SO many other great schools out there and being in love with MIT is a phase that passes once you realize the big picture in life.</p>
<p>Just for the record, I ended up at RPI and don't like it very much, so I'm going to the University of Connecticut this fall. You can go to any college and be a card-counter! hehe...</p>
<p>MIT generally doesn't let any filming occur on campus. I don't know exactly why, or where this comes from, but that's the way it is. There's a shot or 2 of Killian Court in Good Will Hunting, but the rest of the scenes that are supposed to be on campus are most certainly not. (Although they did get the number of the math building right! =P)</p>
<p>You guys are ridiculous. I'm sure there are tons of attractive girls at MIT, even more so than this sex goddess "Jill Taylor" you all seem to be flipping out over...</p>
<p>yeah theyre all horrendously disfigured but at least theyre all really desperate so the socially inept boys can get some action</p>
<p>i personally stopped trying to pick up girls at mit now i just hang out in front of the burn ward and the psyche ward trying to pick up hot girls</p>
<p>I've said it before, but let me reiterate: No matter how hot you (think you) are, there is always going to be someone at MIT who is way out of your league.</p>
