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College!

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 2:31am
by Warren
I went on a visit to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Monday, it was kickass. First, we watched this video, meh, but we saw some people with SEGWAY scooters!! OMG are they crazy! Well after that, me and my friend went to a mechanical engineering lecture. The room was FILLED, prolly 'bout 200+ people in there, but the speaker was HORRIBLE! He was Dutch or Danish, and it was really hard to understand anything he was saying; he's like "ja, und she prlogrlam is fery gud, she underglad coriculum is basht on she projesht of she junior und senior yearshs." Then they had this grad student present his final project thing, and it was HORRIBLE! It was on "Axisymmetric Finite Element Analysis", and even after a 30 minute speech on it, I still don't have a clue on what it is! It's some stupid inverse f of inverse radius of some square circle thing. I have no clue. After that, was LUNCH! That was good, roast beef sandwiches. Then we went to chemical engineering speech, and there was only like, 6 people there. It was awesome, the professers (there were 3) had this cart with an H2 and O2 tanks. They put the lines together, so they'd combine; then they took bubble stuff and made a bubble with the nosel of the tanks. He popped it and it just popped. Then it said "now if we add a cataylist", he took a stick and put some black powder at the end. He made another bubble, and popped it with the stick, and BOOM! the thing exploded with a fireball and huge boom. I jumped out of my seat, it was crazy. Then we saw some labs and learned about a fuel cell works (takes -e from H). After that was biochemistry, meh. Then a residence hall tour, that was cool, and some of the girl's dorms were messer than guys'.

It was cool, but I like Northeastern University's corriculum better, the chemical engineering undergrad focuses on polymer/materials more, while WPI's is biological. NEU is also #1 for co-op, which is invaluable, while WPI has a 2 project program, which I think is just more stupid than useful. And I want to take German and Japanese, and WPI doesn't offer that, while NEU does. Plus I'd like to live in the big city of Boston rather than a medium city of Worcester. Plus it's a lot warmer in Boston! OMG, when I was at WPI, it was -2F, with a windchill of at most -35F! And I was outside most of the day, with a little WPI sweater. Damn I froze, I even got a real bad coating of frost on my face, it hurt so bad. My friend got his nose cavity frozen, that hurts one of the worst. My mom cracked her lip, nasty. At one time, I was walking between 2 buildings, and the wind was SO hard that a person next to me was blown off their feet right onto their butt. I could barely stand at times too. It takes about 70mph wind to knock you down, so that windchill must have been around -75F. While it was -2F in Worcester, it was a MUCH warmer 20F in Boston. Yeah, I haven't seen above 5F in about a week, and there's no relief in site for the next 2 weeks. And that's another reason why I really like NEU, they have an underground network tunnel that connects buildings so you don't have to walk outside.

Now here's a hard decision: Internet
NEU has a T3 line.
WPI has a wireless T1 that can be accessed anywhere in the campus.
What's better? Insane speed, but you have to plug in. Or medium (but still fast) speed, while being WIRELESS? They're both the same, so I don't care.

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 5:44am
by James S

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 6:05am
by Warren

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 6:15am
by James S

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 7:09am
by Warren
I don't get homesick, but yeah, it'll obviously be my first time living on my own, I don't want to move over 1000 miles away... Boston is 45 miles away, about an hour, so that's not bad at all, but far away enough so that my parents wouldn't want to drop by randomly. Worcester is close though, 40-60 minutes away.

And Georgia? I would never dream of living there! Well, it may be warm down there, but I'd opt for a place that doesn't say "y'all". And the Board of Education in Georgia requires that all college grads show a profecient knowledge of the Georgian constitution. Yeah, like I really want to do that *vomits*. I mean, Massachusetts is my home, here, if you turn on the radio, there's a decent chance that it'll be something like System of a Down, while in Georgia, it would be Tim McGraw... I'm a metropolitan, not a yokel farmer. AHH! I don't want to go to Georgia!

NYC is 4 hours away, I'm looking at some colleges there too, but they're very selective... how's RIT? (Rochester Institute of Technology)

You live in Florida Moose, that's not really like Alabama or something. But Georgia, my god, that's like, Arby's...

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 4:30pm
by James S

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 7:27pm
by chuck
exactly, 75% of people find their husband/wives in college. I'm working hard on that :D

PostPosted: Jan 22, 2003 @ 9:05pm
by James S

PostPosted: Jan 23, 2003 @ 1:26am
by SiGen
crap. i think im form the other 25%, i cant find a girl yet :evil: :x

PostPosted: Jan 23, 2003 @ 1:31am
by Michael Y

PostPosted: Jan 23, 2003 @ 1:37am
by Robotbeat

PostPosted: Jan 23, 2003 @ 8:40pm
by chuck
i'm still bickering with my 'love' we've been doing the courting dance for an entire semster. but i am living with her next year in an apartment, with three other girls.