<p>So ... how cool is the MIT Campus?? How large or small is it compared to other comparable colleges(Stanford and other IVYs)?? What's the coolest thing about it?? USNews says its campus size is 168 acres compared to 500 acres for Princeton (which generally is considered a small school). So ... are their numbers wrong or anything? Do comment!!!</p>
<p>I suppose MIT's campus isn't huge like some schools, but I never felt stifled there. For one thing, Killian Court is <em>beautiful</em> and <em>big</em>, always a relaxing place for me. Another thing is that MIT is in the city of Cambridge, and a bridge away from Boston. There's so much in and around campus that... well, I like the atmosphere. I didn't think I would like the city so much (Boston is NOTHING like Los Angeles), but I did =).</p>
<p>Coolest think about the campus? Neat architecture. Random sculptures. Third largest tunnel system in the world.</p>
<p>Wait, I thought the only larger tunnel system was the Kremlin?</p>
<p>However, I also get my information off of Urban Dictionary. So that might be part of the problem.</p>
<p>So, there's no art gallery, museum ... heck! i don't really care!!</p>
<p>Ah, perhaps it's the second. I don't know. We're up there, and we're awesome. That's all that matters =D.</p>
<p>And there's art at MIT! And museums are all around! MIT has its own museum, actually - and then MIT students get free access to Boston's nearby Museum of Science. And Boston just has tons of shiny stuff.</p>
<p>Grrrttt!!!</p>
<p>The List</a> Visual Arts Center is also essentially MIT's art gallery.</p>
<p>The Tech never fails.</p>
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<p>At a non-urban school (you mentioned Princeton), you're pretty much dependent on the galleries or museums on campus -- But at MIT (as Piper suggested), you have the entire Boston-Cambridge area to draw from:</p>
<p>Museums</a> in Boston and Cambridge</p>
<p>Most of these are easily reachable by public transportation, I believe.</p>
<p>Ok ... so Boston comes as a package deal with MIT .... isn't stuff at Boston costly???</p>
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<p>You get a lot of discount/free admissions to stuff around Boston (the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Science, the Museum of Fine Arts, the New England Aquarium) as an MIT student, and as a student in general.</p>
<p>Great!!! Is there really an AI lab at MIT(gosh, that must be awwwesome!!) And are ugrads allowed to ... errr .... snoop in labs of unrelated majors?? (Nevermind the last question ...)</p>
<p>You can't snoop, but by all means, you can probably be properly escorted through any MIT lab (barring those needing necessary training just to enter).</p>
<p>And regarding AI, [url=<a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/%5Dyes%5B/url">http://www.csail.mit.edu/]yes[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Thanks!!!!</p>
<p>If you get in, I think there are tours during orientation.</p>
<p>Also , if you sign up for DEECS (one of the freshmen pre-orientation program (FREE!)) You get a tour of all the CS labs, and you don't have to be a EECS student to sign up.</p>
<p>As regard to campus size...it is big enough for me to not want to walk from one end to the other end several times a day, but still walkable.
There are plenty of places to chill off campus, so you don't have to stay on it all the time.</p>
<p>oh btw. the CSAIL is in the Stata Center! ( look it up on Google Images). If you want to work in it, there are some UROPs.
If you are visiting over the summer or something, you can walk around in it. There are plenty of glass windows for you to see some cool stuff.</p>
<p>And if you want to know something cool, the kresge auditorium is exactly 1/8 of a perfect sphere.</p>
<p>the Stata Center? Cool! Definitely looking forward to UROPing there (why do i talk as if I got in already??)</p>
<p>Just to let prefrosh know, "Kresge is exactly 1/8th of a perfect sphere." is perhaps the most overplayed MIT tidbit or piece of MIT trivia. :p</p>
<p>spherical shell, no?</p>
<p>Princeton's is probably considered small because it is in a town (known pretty much because the university is there). The number of students at MIT and Princeton is roughly similar (around 4000 undergrads).</p>
<p>It's not the most aesthetically pleasing university you'll go to, but it has a bit of variety and innovation in its buildings which, I feel, is more interesting to the types of people that enjoy MIT.</p>
<p>Yea the MIT campus is small compared to many other schools because it is packed into a tight area. Keep in mind that MIT is in a big urban area while Princeton is in a somewhat rural area. Also, while many campuses have buildings spread out and such, a large number of MIT's buildings are interconnected and squished together. </p>
<p>MIT's campus is beautiful regardless of size anyway. The skyline is visible from many areas of campus and a good number of the dorms have views of both the skyline and the river. In my eyes, MIT is in the best possible location for a school: right outside the downtown of a major city and on water.</p>