MIT and "immersive learning"

<p>Here is a quote taken from a blogger. If her quote is accurate, MIT is truly my paradise…</p>

<p>"This past semester, I’ve finally started to understand MIT as an institute built on cooperative, immersive learning. Meaning that the curriculum is structured around a level of difficulty that requires you to reach out and work with your classmates, to stay up until the early hours of the morning discussing problem sets, correcting each other, plowing yourselves into deeper, subtler levels of comprehension that you certainly didn’t see during lecture. The end effect is that **the line between your classes and life beyond classes becomes progressively blurrier **until you’re instinctively radiating and absorbing information from those around you during all waking hours. This is unbelievably uplifting to your ability to make interesting dinner conversation at family gatherings. "</p>

<p>What about you? What makes your stomach churn when you think “MIT”?</p>

<p>Generally stomach churning is not a positive thing. :)</p>

<p>I’ll put in a brief plug for what I think is the best blog entry I ever wrote:
[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “Who we are”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/mits_mission_who_we_are/who_we_are.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/mits_mission_who_we_are/who_we_are.shtml)
I think that’s the closest I’ve ever come to successfully explaining why I love MIT so much, and why MIT still feels like home to me when I go back to campus.</p>