What's so good about MIT?

[Jeez]

What is MIT good for anyway?

Computer Science? Economics? MBA? Engineering?

Is it good for freshmen or is it a research sanctuary?

If all a guy wants is a professional job, how advantageous is it to graduate
from there?

[Darccity]

Engineering (and to a lesser extent Comp Sci) are fragile degrees. Nobody
makes more with a Bachelors than these degrees. The downside is (1) the
volatililty of employment (your employer loses one big aeospace or other gov't
contract and the last hired are downsized), (2) up and downs in your specialty
(ME, EE, Arch, IE, comp sci, etc.) can mean that a thriving job market when you
start as a freshman could dry up when you graduate (remember all those
petroleum geologist when oil was $30/barrrel), (3) perishable skill that force
you into a lifetime of retraining or going back for an MBA or worse by your
midthirties. Remember also that everybody in engineering is bright, so there's
no place to hide or fake it (bull or cow). Engineering and comp sci employees
also suffer the Dilbert syndrom of no empowerment. It hits them hardest
because they are usually far smarter than their managers and suffer when
obvious productivity improvements are ignored. Finally, many engineering
degrees are disguised Masters degrees in course worse and rigor. Yet their
liberal arts component is often sparce, resulting in the stereotypical myopic
graduate (the best schools like MIT and Caltech strive to lessen this tendency,
though).

[mello]

What did you ask again?????  You don't know what MIT is good for?  Obviously you have been ignorant, but in any case, here are some aspects of MIT of which I think is "good."

 

MIT has great undergraduate and graduate programs in comp sci, mba (sloan is one of the top five, i think....and that some undergrads are able to take classes w/grads), engineering, mathematics, etc. 

 

I heard that the UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) is a great opportunity for freshmen, or for any undergrad to do research with professors, etc.  This prepares and helps any undergrad student to choose which career field they would like to be in.  (Its also a chance to play with some cool chemicals, etc....hehe   =)    )

 

Of all the colleges I have visited, MIT seems to be the most lively, jovial, and amusing college (unlike the typical stereotype that everyone studies all the time there.....well, i'm sure that most of the people there studies all the time, but they have a social life too!)  MIT has a hacking museum, where it displays all of the innovative pranks done to the university. 

 

Its academic reputation is one of the highest in the country.  If one gets a B in a class, that B would be worth an A in most other colleges.  Since MIT's faculty and researchers are prestigious and well-known throughout the world,  it would certainly be an advantage to have been taught by them!

 

What made you ask "what is MIT good for anyway?"   Do you think that the university has nothing to offer that would benefit any student who goes there?

Jeez wrote in message <6tsev1$5...@news2.jaring.my>...

[CTSteel]

In article <6u1lqt$g...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>, "mello"
<lim.f...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Of all the colleges I have visited, MIT seems to be the most lively, =
> jovial, and amusing college (unlike the typical stereotype that everyone =
> studies all the time there...

I'm wondering what other colleges you visited and what your impressions
were----compared to MIT and in general.

C.Steel