<p>Contrary of what you might think about an engineering school is it true MIT is more about teamwork, hands on learning and creativity. I heard this from someone.</p>
<p>Well, teamwork for sure – I mean, when you’re taking very difficult classes and doing difficult problem sets, it’s much better to sit around with your friends and eat pizza and toss around solutions to the problems than to try to slog through it on your own. The habit gets ingrained freshman year, when most students are taking similar classes, so big study groups gather together every week to do problem sets.</p>
<p>I think it’s more difficult to provide evidence for hands-on learning and creativity per se, but certainly a large number of engineering classes involve big design projects (my fiance was in aerospace engineering, and he had to design and build planes for probably five or six different classes). In the sciences, it’s more common to do your hands-on learning through UROP – I learned a huge amount of science, both theoretical and practical, in my three years in the lab.</p>