[vonklaus]

I would wager that MIT has some of the best return on capital in the world. MIT is an amazing school, has an amazing reputation, and getting an engineering degree from MIT will likely be worth it. Like was already said, the network and life experience are really amazing. I could only imagine the kind of people one meets at MIT. Interesting and intelligent people with similar interests.

I went to a coding school (I also attended university) and I would say that when you are young, college is an amazing experience where you learn a lot about life.

I think someone will eventually crack the code by getting a school together for 2 years with >500 students and partner with a university so that students can get social activities in. This, in my opinion, would be the absolute best scenario.

A college experience, amazing education, and a long enough time horizon to learn and build interesting things.