<p>Hi marciemi! :-)</p>
<p>Well, if you have a kid who balked at the idea of cooking for himself (he really can do it, he just chooses not to!), the meal plans are very convenient and the 14 meal plan is ok.</p>
<p>From my son this week: “I am motivated to do well because everyone around me is motivated to do well.” He finally knows what it’s like to work hard and I think that’s a really good thing.</p>
<p>Yes, doing 25-30 hours of homework a week is intense but yes, even my organizationally challenged son is learning to manage his time.</p>
<p>My son isn’t raving about his first semester profs-says one is sort of senile, one is kind of flaky/spacey, and I haven’t heard about the others but I think they’re ok.</p>
<p>Um, he’s learned to skip class (in fact his analysis teacher encouraged them to skip since he’d be reading from his textbook) to do homework and to self teach certain topics. Whatever!</p>
<p>To be honest, one of the criticisms of MIT that I see on CC is their admissions process but if you meet the students at MIT, you’ll will see very quickly that they belong there.</p>