<li>Too cold</li>
<li>Alums spend time making nacho fountains (<a href=“http://www.ilovenachocheese.com/2007/03/two_mit_student.html[/url]”>http://www.ilovenachocheese.com/2007/03/two_mit_student.html</a>)</li>
<li>55%/45%</li>
<li>No In-N-Out Burger
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<p>I expect all rejects to contribute.</p>
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<li>Too cold :(</li>
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<p>What about waitlistees?</p>
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<li>Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering</li>
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<p>(although I must say MIT is still a great school)</p>
<p>im too cool for everyone there</p>
<p>don’t hide the fact that you guys would have gone if not for your rejection. lol</p>
<p>Too cold and too humid. And perhaps too professional (read: snobby, cutthroat competitive)…</p>
<p>I did get in though, I just probably won’t go…</p>
<p>And Polite: I honestly believed either way I wasn’t going to go. Getting accepted or rejected doesn’t change it =(</p>
<p>Snobby and cutthroat competitive?</p>
<p>…have you visited MIT?</p>
<p>^Actually half the people I know who visited or went to MIT believe that, and the other half vehemently deny it. I guess it’s who you hang out with and what attitude you bring.</p>
<p>I’m a hustla.</p>
<p>Excuse me… I didn’t mean to categorize the whole place like that. And it’s more Harvard and Yale. But my point was, compared to the more laid-back west coast (again, broad stereotyping) the east coast is just more class-driven. My interviewer told me the first thing you ask someone you meet is “so where’d you go to school?” I don’t know if I would really like that kind of atmosphere.</p>
<p>NO IN-N-OUT???</p>
<p>Sacrilege!!!</p>
<p>“snobby, cutthroat competitive”
I highly doubt the second part is true, but I know for a fact the “snobby” part is false. </p>
<p>This past week I visited the campus. Almost every single time I opened my BC calc book at least one student in the dorm asked me what I was doing and told me that they were available for help. Even my teacher doesn’t do that! so yeah… from my experience, no one is snobby at MIT</p>
<p>It’s EFFING HARD.
And ridiculously cold, with sucky sucky weather.</p>
<p>But uh…I’m going anyways, haha. But I thought I’d contribute to the thread regardless!</p>
<p>I’m from California and the coldness is exaggerated. You will survive.</p>
<p>Also:
(read: snobby, cutthroat competitive)…</p>
<p>***? Nothing about this place is either of those. Cutthroat competitive? I have yet to meet a person who won’t let me look at their answer to a pset or help explain something to me…</p>
<p>haha yeah, spartan is right. People are always willing to help you out, you have only to ask. If you have a friend or know somebody in the class… instant work buddy! If not, just go to office hours and you’ll find people to work with and answers to your questions while you’re at it!</p>
<p>Is the cutthroat competitive comment referring to the fact that most classes use a curve? I find that even this fact doesn’t really create that atmosphere. Instead, everyone feels they are pretty much in it together, and it’s everyone vs. the test/pset instead of everyone vs. eachother.</p>
<p>Snobby? Not really. I think you’ll find most of the people are really down to earth. Sure you’ll get the occasional person who is a little full of himself (probably a freshman haha ;P), but you’ll find this pretty much anywhere. Especially at academically challenging institutions.</p>
<p>As for cold, hey it’s not really all <em>that</em> bad. Plus you definitely adjust over the course of the winter. Right now upper 50’s feels almost like shorts weather to me (and I’m from Texas! ;)).</p>
<p>Why is near parity between males and females a problem? :P</p>
<p>As for IN-N-OUT, sadly this is true. We do miss out on this culinary experience. However, if you know of the nectar that is IN-N-OUT, chances are you live in an area where you have access to said burgers. So, you will still be able to fill up on the breaks. Plus, all the salivating you did over the semester will re-sensitize your IN-N-OUT tastebuds and you’ll enjoy those burgers even more! :D</p>
<p>I’m also upset that there are no Half Price Books… that store is basically my life. Or maybe it’s a good thing, considering I tend to go in there to buy one book and come out with four and a CD…</p>
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<p>Oh, I don’t know about that. Specifically, I don’t know that the East Coast is any more class-driven than is the West Coast, as long as we are holding the quality of education constant. You don’t think that people on the West Coast are snobby with regards to education? Perhaps you should hang around Palo Alto sometime. Berkeley too definitely has its share of snobbiness.</p>
<p>l0lll, so true. As I suggested, you’ll find a few at any top tier university.</p>