<p>Dartmouth not vocational? After 1. Yale, 2. Princeton, 3. Harvard, and 4. Northwestern, Dartmouth has the highest % of its alumni going on to become CEOs of a Fortune 500 company. *</p>
<p>With a liberal arts degree, you can do anything. A liberal arts degree is the best background, in my opinion, for journalism, marketing, business, science, engineering, teaching, and any number of other professions other than being an airline pilot. Just look at the Pulitzer Prize winners. Very few of them went to journalism school.</p>
<p>*Source: Susan Caminiti "Where the CEOs went to college", Fortune Magazine.</p>
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<p>Wow..I totally didn't get this impression of MIT at all! When I got there, people were talking and hanging out..especially in the Student Center. I don't know, maybe I just got there on a particularly light work day or something, but I don't see MIT's campus as being particularly isolationist---and especially since you mentioned two seconds afterward that the fraternity life was overbearing. Aren't frats normally associated with a social life???</p>
<p>I had gotten from my tour guide that it was much more underground, very similar to Dartmouth in that it's very work hard play hard. But perhaps I had chosen a bad day to attend (it had been a Monday after all). But I did want to go to the school on a heavy day to see how the school boils.</p>
<p>MIT's frats are generally very, very far from campus. Across the river a mile or more away, actually. In my experience going there numerous times, the student life on campus is very fragmented. It isn't anything like some campuses where all the dorms and facilities are close to each other.</p>
<p>Also, there are exceptions of course, but I don't think MIT students, in general, are anywhere near as happy with their school as students from other universities. MIT has recognized this (I know the President) and is instituting programs to try and cut back on the influence of the frats. Another reason they are doing this is because, as the Boston Globe has showed, MIT has one of the highest suicide rates of any college in the country and also because there was a student who died from drinking at a frat hazing a few years ago, resulting in an enormous settlement against the university (something in the tens of millions of dollars if I recall correctly).</p>
<p>:(...well I know that I'm going to be happy....at least, I'm happy that I'm going there right now...two months from now it might be a different story.</p>
<p>Yeah, the frats are across the river, but since that's where all the frat students are, I count it as a social life. :) don't burst my bubble!!!!</p>
<p>No, def enjoy MIT, I mean I loved the campus, with all its quirky characteristics, it definitely very appealing. But to put it simply, the Greek life isn't something I would enjoy. Merely just a personal preference. So I say enjoy MIT, it's an awesome school with incredible academics and opportunities. It was definitely in my top three choices up until about two weeks ago. So love it, live it, remember it. :) And, don't worry, you can always travel 1.7 miles down Massachusetts Ave. and party it up at Harvard :)</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm not too sure about the Greek life either....we'll see how it goes. And there's always the rich guys at Harvard!! Wow...what stereotype!:)</p>
<p>Trust me, I ain't rich for anything, and I'm damn proud about that :)</p>