Where Do You Want To Go To College?

I went to Georgetown. If I had to do it again, I'd go to U of Illinois or U of Michigan, which are supposedly "worse" but in reality not really worse. Top names are not necessarily what they're cracked up to be. Georgetown has a tense, unpleasant environment and I loathed being there the whole time. It wasn't just me, many of my friends were homesick and hated the school. To expand on that point, my brother did his PhD in Biology at MIT, (which many people here seem to aspire to get into,) and he told me no way in hell is he sending his kids there. If there's any one thing I've learned about being in college, it's that you should never just judge a place by its statistics and admission difficulty. Look at the campus carefully and try to talk to students who are already there, because they won't bull$hit you like the tour guides will. Getting a pretty piece of paper is NOT worth a nervous breakdown or four years of general misery.