The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 168 acres of campus, twenty-six of which are playing fields. The school has been around since 1861, and employs over ten-thousand people, about 1,800 of whom are teachers. The school is ranked number seven out of the best schools in America (SOURCE).
The school consists of over a dozen buildings, with architecture spanning across many generations of MIT’s existence. One of the most famous buildings is the Great Dome, which contains the Barker library, as well as a reading room. The campus is also home to undergraduate housing, with twelve buildings that students can live in. The campus is also home to twenty-six acres of playing fields, so one can play a multitude of sports.
MIT hosts lots of different majors and minors for people to study as well. There are forty-six majors and forty-nine minors offered at MIT, with focuses on science and mathematics. You can get a master’s degree in finances or engineering, and a doctorate in science or philosophy at MIT. There are also a lot of sports that MIT offers, such as baseball, softball, basketball and soccer.
The school is also famous for the undergraduate pranks. These “hacks,” as students on campus call them, are often done to celebrate a date of some important event. MIT also tends to prank their college rival, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Hacks include placing a campus police car on top of the great dome, with its lights still flashing, as well as turning the dome into the head of R2-D2. The pranks are not cruel, and pranksters follow a written code of ethics.
In the end, MIT would be an excellent college to go to. Getting into the school, however, would be one of the greatest hurdles involved. The total costs over $50,000 a year, and only 8.9% of applicants are accepted into MIT. However, the school is one of the best, so all the hardships would likely be worth it.
Written By: Durgin Sweet
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