<p>I saw this thread for several other schools and would really like to see one for MIT. I am a rising senior about to do my applications so finding out what's great and unique to each school is very important. I'll start it from what I have read/heard but please help! Thanks!</p>
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<li>Great local atmosphere (Boston/Cambridge) </li>
<li>Trained to take a great deal of stress and adapt for success once you get out into the world.</li>
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<li>Good looking student body…oh wait. :)</li>
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<p>This post idea is honestly kinda ridiculous. 101 is too many for anyone to seriously bother reading through and adding to. To compensate, being a proud MIT student, I will give you 10 semi-detailed reasons, in no particular order other than what comes to mind.</p>
<p>Things great about MIT:</p>
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<li>MIT’s name. It’s a huge brand name, def in the group of most recognized university names. While this may seem arbitrary, it is a huge thing for employers when they see this name on a resume, and it’ll get your recognized pretty much wherever you go.</li>
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<p>2.Like you mentioned, Boston/Cambridge atmosphere. Lotta colleges here, lotta students, lotta companies, good places to study.</p>
<p>3.Amazing education, especially in sciences, engineering, or business/economics. By the end of college, you’ll be recognized as some of the best undergraduate students in your respective fields. I’ve always though rankings were bull****, but overall, MIT is well-recognized as the top undergraduate education in numerous fields. Also, our humanities is terribly underrated and is actually very good, if you’re interested. People just don’t respect it b/c so few students at MIT actually major in humanities besides fields such as econ (which MIT is amongst the best).</p>
<p>4.Professors and researchers working on the latest things leading their fields. There aren’t many places where it’s so easy to interact with Nobel laureates, Turing award winners, McArthur Geniuses, etc. My freshman advisor was a Nobel Laureate (Phillip Sharp, 1993). Ate with him a few times and got to know him. It was awesome! I had lunch with Barbara Liskov, 2009 Turing award winner. I’ve heard lectures from 3 Fields medalists, 3 other Nobel Laureates, you get the idea. And this is all in one year.</p>
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<li><p>UROP =Undergrad Research Opportunity Program. It’s a huge program where you can do real research with professors and researchers for credit or pay, you choose. Terribly easy to get, and this is real, I emphasize, real reasearch. Many people (granted mostly upperclassmen) get papers published, posters presented, talks given, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Tons of recruiting resources. MIT has an amazingly wide connection with employers, and they bring in tons of recruiters. In matter of fact, on average, I probably receive 20 hiring ads from companies each day during the school year. There are tons of info sessions, career fairs, recruiting events, etc. As a freshman, I had 12 interview, and 7 offers for the summer. And I’m the norm.</p></li>
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<p>7.MIT Alumni network. MIT people are proud of MIT, and this carries on after graduatioin. MIT obviously has many successful alums, and this offers many opportunities for hiring, learning/meeting people, getting advice, etc. At one of my summer internships, there were several MIT alums there, and they found me and we had coffee, went out to eat, and I learned a lot from them. Fun fact: the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would be the seventeenth largest economy in the world.</p>
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<li><p>Challenge. MIT is not for everyone, as wonderful as it is. It is a hellishly hard place. But you come out of it for the better. MIT provides a challenge like nothing you’ll have experienced yet, and you’ll learn so much, and gain so much from this challenge. If you like to challenge yourself, well then MIT might be a good place for you. People with drive to become the best will thrive here and get the most out of a place like this.</p></li>
<li><p>Fun! Yes did I say fun!? Yes I did. MIT is not just a place of nerds. Yes, we have more than our fair share and our average IQ is def abnormally high. But we’re still college students, and we love to have fun. Work hard, party hard. And yes we party hard. We have 20-some frats and several sororities, and we have several parties going on every week. And our parties aren’t actually lame, because we attract students from pretty much any other Boston area college, like Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Wellesley, Simmons, etc. One of my friends liked to say that at MIT parties, you couldn’t assume a girl was from MIT, b/c half of the people at the party weren’t.</p></li>
<li><p>Last, and not least, perhaps most important, your fellow classmates. You would be in the company of the brightest body of students this nation has to offer. I bet you could learn a thing or two from other people and their experiences 
lol. Trust me, being in such a high class company will enhance your college and life experience beyond belief.</p></li>
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<p>Just to be fair, I will give a few very brief personal non-so-hots about MIT:
<p>I hope that provides a slightly informative, definitely slanted insight into MIT. Feel free to message me for more information.</p>
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<li>It takes the most brilliant, diverse, unique, fun, and nerdy young adults in the world and puts them into a collaborative environment where no one is THE smart one and everyone has everything to learn from each other.</li>
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