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<p>Then perhaps you could explain the IHTFP acronym.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “IHTFP”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/ihtfp.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/ihtfp.shtml)</p>
<p>[IHTFP</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHTFP]IHTFP”>Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Or perhaps one could ask why the MIT Brass Rat class ring is worn with the rat facing away from you until graduation day, whereupon the rat is turned to face towards you. </p>
<p>[MIT</a> class ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“MIT class ring - Wikipedia”>MIT class ring - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>An MIT education was once infamously described as drinking from a firehose. </p>
<p>[IHTFP</a> Hack Gallery: Fire Hose Drinking Fountain](<a href=“http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1991/fire_hydrant/]IHTFP”>IHTFP Hack Gallery: Fire Hose Drinking Fountain)</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong - I’m a fan of MIT. However, I have heard it described, and I tend to agree, that MIT is a great school to be from, but not necessarily to be at.</p>
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<p>At some Ivies, I’m sure that is true. But Princeton is the smallest of the Ivies. </p>
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<p>Well, dissatisfied or not, at least they graduate at very high rates. Princeton graduates a highly impressive 90% of its students within 4 years; how many other schools can say the same? If the students were really so dissatisfied, why don’t they all just transfer elsewhere?</p>