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For me, being at MIT has been much more valuable than my time at RPI (my alma mater). And that's because lots of cool, innovative, and intelligent people flock
by Taek 11y ago
For me, being at MIT has been much more valuable than my time at RPI (my alma mater). And that's because lots of cool, innovative, and intelligent people flock to MIT. When hosting an event, MIT is able to get the best speakers in the world to show up, because the speakers are excited to be at MIT. I've had conversations with people who would never have come all the way out to RPI because RPI just isn't as interesting.
And so it reinforces itself. Intelligent people flock there because intelligent people flock there. But it also means that the time spent there is more valuable.
- pragone 11y agoTo be fair, RPI is in Troy, NY, and MIT is in Cambridge/Boston, MA. Nonetheless, I agree with you. Location probably is a deciding factor in a minority of people who would rather go to MIT to talk than RPI.
- crzwdjk 11y agoAnd what do you think is the advantage of Cambridge over Troy? At least in part, it's the fact that it's where people who go to MIT live. And once they graduate from MIT, there are plenty of companies just across the street waiting for them, having located their offices in part for the convenient access to MIT. It's not clear that Cambridge would be at all the same without MIT and Harvard.