I came across this article titled "10 Lessons of an MIT Education" written by Gian-Carlo Rota. I thought it is pretty interesting.

Lesson One: You can and will work at a desk for seven hours straight, routinely.

Lesson Two: You learn what you don't know you are learning.

Lesson Three: By and large, "knowing how" matters more than "knowing what."

Lesson Four: In science and engineering, you can fool very little of the time.

Lesson Five: You don't have to be a genius to do creative work.

Lesson Six: You must measure up to a very high level of performance.

Lesson seven: The world and your career are unpredictable, so you are better off learning subjects of permanent value.

Lesson Eight: You are never going to catch up, and neither is anyone else.

Lesson Nine: The future belongs to the computer-literate-squared.

Lesson Ten: Mathematics is still the queen of the sciences.

Of course, by just looking at the listed lessons, you are not going to understand much. You will need the elaboration, and the full article is available at http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html .