<p>My daughter had an amazing experience at MIT. She made life-long friends, fell in love with a great guy she’s still with after 4 years, traveled with MIT grad students to help build a particle detector in Germany, participated in several fascinating research projects, learned how to sail, and went on to study physics at Harvard. When she was at MIT, she lived in a dorm, and by the time she was a senior, she had made friends with some students who were several years below her. She now has an apartment of her own close to Harvard, but she still regularly hosts “game night” for friends who are now just finishing up at MIT. As a grad student, she’s far from rich, but she is definitely self-supporting and very, very happy This summer she was at the Large Hadron Collider, working on the ATLAS team, and she’ll return to France next fall. She still feels a far greater connection to MIT than to Harvard. It just feels like home.</p>