I went to MIT. My parents are middle class, so MIT paid for more than 60 percent of my tuition each semester. (at Harvard and Princeton, the college financial aid would probably pay for more than 80 percent of tuition for me due to higher endowments). So while I wouldn’t say my parents spent a fortune, it definitely did cost more than if I went to a state school.
I want to open a math academy in my hometown of Birmingham, AL. Even if I get enough (a healthy 100 to 150) students, I won’t be earning a fortune by any means. I could have done this if I had gone to UAB, my state school, instead of MIT. I am not going to use anything I learned at MIT in my teachings. Instead, I am using things I learned from extracurricular sources and my own studying in high school.
Even though I’m not going to use anything I studied at MIT, this is something I WANT to do. I feel that I am making a difference in other people’s lives directly. I felt that I didn’t get a quality math education in school here in Birmingham, Alabama, growing up. So I want to give interested students in the local area a chance to get that sort of quality education from me (At least, I think I teach well!)
(I am not interested in maximizing my income. I want to maximize my impact on this world. While working at a company might make my impact more widespread in some sense, teaching locally seems to be filling a gap in a teaching deficit that I consider to be quite a real world “problem”. I think that many people from Alabama who end up going to a high tier college will struggle in with math or STEM things due to a lack of good math foundation.)
Also, I didn’t like being the only person interested in academics and research at my high school. I also didn’t like being the smartest or second smartest person in the room. It never felt like I was being pushed or constantly expanding my horizons intellectually in that sort of environment. I knew that if I went to a lower tier school, I might end up in the same situation. I wanted to be surrounded with people who were as interested in academics and research as I was. And while not everyone at MIT was like that, it was definitely possible for me to find groups of people like that at MIT. (note: I’m not saying that a lower tier school wouldn’t have people with similar interests as mine, but MIT was definitely a great place to be for someone interested in math research)
Also, I’ve made great friends at MIT. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
In summary, I have no regrets. I am doing something I love (or at least hoping to be able to do this while supporting myself). I think I am helping to fill in a need in the local community. I was in a good intellectual atmosphere at MIT. I met lots of great people with high ambitions and kind hearts. And I have a good degree to fall back on in case I want to get a normal job.
I went to MIT. My parents are middle class, so MIT paid for more than 60 percent of my tuition each semester. (at Harvard and Princeton, the college financial aid would probably pay for more than 80 percent of tuition for me due to higher endowments). So while I wouldn’t say my parents spent a fortune, it definitely did cost more than if I went to a state school.
I want to open a math academy in my hometown of Birmingham, AL. Even if I get enough (a healthy 100 to 150) students, I won’t be earning a fortune by any means. I could have done this if I had gone to UAB, my state school, instead of MIT. I am not going to use anything I learned at MIT in my teachings. Instead, I am using things I learned from extracurricular sources and my own studying in high school.
Even though I’m not going to use anything I studied at MIT, this is something I WANT to do. I feel that I am making a difference in other people’s lives directly. I felt that I didn’t get a quality math education in school here in Birmingham, Alabama, growing up. So I want to give interested students in the local area a chance to get that sort of quality education from me (At least, I think I teach well!)
(I am not interested in maximizing my income. I want to maximize my impact on this world. While working at a company might make my impact more widespread in some sense, teaching locally seems to be filling a gap in a teaching deficit that I consider to be quite a real world “problem”. I think that many people from Alabama who end up going to a high tier college will struggle in with math or STEM things due to a lack of good math foundation.)
Also, I didn’t like being the only person interested in academics and research at my high school. I also didn’t like being the smartest or second smartest person in the room. It never felt like I was being pushed or constantly expanding my horizons intellectually in that sort of environment. I knew that if I went to a lower tier school, I might end up in the same situation. I wanted to be surrounded with people who were as interested in academics and research as I was. And while not everyone at MIT was like that, it was definitely possible for me to find groups of people like that at MIT. (note: I’m not saying that a lower tier school wouldn’t have people with similar interests as mine, but MIT was definitely a great place to be for someone interested in math research)
Also, I’ve made great friends at MIT. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
In summary, I have no regrets. I am doing something I love (or at least hoping to be able to do this while supporting myself). I think I am helping to fill in a need in the local community. I was in a good intellectual atmosphere at MIT. I met lots of great people with high ambitions and kind hearts. And I have a good degree to fall back on in case I want to get a normal job.
others.
写作水平一般，高考语文不会高分
不管怎么样，最后大家不都是一个归宿？LOL
又要废话一下了：每个偶然和选择，都会对一生有或多或少的影响
和一直居住平原的人，是不一样的。。。。
哎呀
10%，也许更低的叙述和表达能力都达不到。我真的是这么认为的。
别的不说，他的英文水平真的差到离谱的程度。
都是短句。每一句都是“I", "I"。。。启文。他可能真的是连一天的英文训练都没做过。
难道做正常工作的人就不make impact of world 了。
而且说MIT 学的东西都没用。那就是不用上MIT了？
可是也不后悔。