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.
