tl;dr - good education, concerning lack of mental ...

tl;dr - good education, concerning lack of mental health care. Long review below.

The education experience is as amazing and difficult as one may expect if you are motivated to take hard classes. Nearly every class I took has practical applications in engineering and taught me something I remember. Getting job offers after graduating was no problem at all and made up for a lot of the stress and sleep I didn't get while attending.

Interactions with admin, on the other hand have been quite negative. Student government exists but is often ignored for all important decisions regarding residential life, which is particularly important since all students are guaranteed 4 years of housing. Postdoc and phd research are top priority to a fault at times, and finding funding for grad school is often incredibly difficult even if you get in. There is no need based nor merit based financial aid for graduate school. TAships are expensive so every class tries to have as few as possible. RAships are slightly better, as the Institute subsidizes half the tuition cost that the lab pays, but again they are very competitive to get and there are far fewer available than admitted students who wish to attend.

Mental health beyond freshman year is completely ignored. I cannot express how incredibly important it is to fix this. Despite multiple tragic incidents during the time I was there nothing substantial changed in their policy. I know multiple fellow students who had reached out in hard times and were ignored or quickly brushed aside. This is completely unacceptable for such a high stress environment where everyone will always feel behind to some degree. Unfortunately, I worry that because of the issues with admin not listening to students as mentioned above, any solution implemented wouldn't be fully thought out and be largely ineffective.

Professors are extremely accessible and largely good teachers. The disconnect with Admin is there too unfortunately, you wouldn't guess that MIT takes in so much money when going through lab funding stuff with them.

Unfortunately you can see how the money is being used, and a large chunk of it is currently going to real estate development in the surrounding area. This has had the effect of creating a food desert in the Cambridge area, as grocery stores went out of business and were replaced by restaurants in the $15-$20 price range popular with biotech employees in the companies adjacent to campus. Meal plans are incredibly expensive so nearly all students who have a choice will go without one will and save the money.

Luckily this is a school and its job to educate, and for that they are amazing hence my 4 star rating. But these other issues can't be ignored and substantially degrade the student experience.