<p>MIT is a really cool place, and you should check it out for yourself! Go visit places like the plasma fusion center, attend a couple of lectures and talk to students there - and you'll realize the learning environment is totally cool, totally intense=)</p>
<p>great info thanks</p>
<p>I was amazed and surprised by the diversity of the place, and I didn't even go to CPW so nobody sold MIT to me. Skaters, hippies, jocks, supernerds, goths, rebels, preps, frats...you can find anyone. Dye your hair any color you want to. A lot of schools have a dominant culture of preppy, and it seems like if you don't fit the mold and buy designer you'll be left out. At MIT, you make your own clothes and you paint your dorm room walls with murals, darn it (only if you have time and want to do this instead of reading Kant or string theory or making your own whatever-it-is-you've-been-dreaming-to-make)! I found MIT surprisingly more artsy (knowing its a tech school) and much more creative than any other school I visited. It's very liberal and some may think that it borders on rude, but I think that though Boston is very blue it's also very classy/neat. This info is only from my short visit, so this is mostly comparing Boston to LA, my hometown. If you love to be challenged intellectually, this is the place for you. Professors are really nice, willling to help, and genuinely excited about their subject matter. If you love freedom, this is the place for you. Dude, I sound like an ad. I was accepted and decided to enroll, so I don't know if all this is for sure until I actually experience it this fall.</p>
<p>"Skaters"</p>
<p>only a handful</p>
<p>yes, but we're always happy to have more ;)
i'm glad the range of student culture here impressed you, nerdrocker. methinks i'll run into you at rush in the fall.
oh gods. i should run rush events. <em>plan plan plan</em></p>