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I am a senior this year and am trying to pick out a college to go to. I want to get into some kind of engineering, but not too sure what kind yet. Basically i am just wondering what you guys thought about the college(s) you went, just for some ideas.

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where's whitey at, I think this is his topic here.

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Im registered for Wyo Tech to begin Oct 3rd 2005. I cant wait. Im signed up for Auto Collision/reifinishing with an add on class of street rod fabrication and high performance engine building. Its gonna be a sweet ------ deal.
BTW, that dropped me $22K. I will be in Larymie, Wyoming.


Im going out there to go to school #1 and #2 be myself and not be pinned down by this Marine Corps ----...start planning homemadeturbo.com bbq's and party's. ;D

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Washington State University School of Engineering is one of the best, but Im a little biased...anyway WSU's SOE sees lots and lots of private grants, and gets lots of patents meaning you get a lot of coorperate work while still in school...

I guess I should have asked what kind of engineering?

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i whish i knew exactly, but i am not sure yet. I am leaning towards going to more of a university right now, but i keep changing my mind

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----, come chill at FSU. Engineering school is pretty good and the football is great!

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Notre Dame is a dam good University for eng.

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I'm here at Penn State and I'm ready to hang myself cause I have so much work. School is overrated, get a job landscaping so you can smoke weed all day. This is my dream in life, ---- being a sucess :(

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LSU!!!

We prob have the biggest group of HMT set-ups in the south... We are ghetto... 8)

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This is the attitude of most people at our engineering school. I started off down the technical path and chose to get a degree in something else. Most people ignorantly say "hey im gonna be an engineer!" Then they come to college and discover pretty quick how hard it is. Do yourself a favor, if your gonna be an engineer go to a shitty school. It's a lot easier.

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haha, ya that probably exactly how i am gonna turn out. I don't like all the math too much so there might be a problem there, i figure i have two year of college to really decide what i want to do exactly.
I don't want to limit the options to just engineering schools, i want to hear about what everyone has done.

Whitiey, i live about 3 hours from PSU and am really looking into going there. Is it really that bad?

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I wouldn't go to school for a shitty education, that's just shitty. If you are going to spend your time and money on an education, go get some of quality. Even if you decide you don't want it after you graduate or what not, at least you didn't get some half ass work for your money. It's like paying full price for a car that's a theft recovery. It may run, it may drive, but it's also missing the seats, doors, trunk... etc.

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---- college, it's too hard, I got a 65 on a test I thought I did good on, 65 is not good.

I think it would have been easier for me to go out of town to go to school since insted of studying I just get on hmt all day and work on my car. If I lose my scholarship this semester I'll really have to bust ass because I'm not going to drop out of college with loans and ---- to pay off.

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At a big 10 school like PSU the bigger the schools the shittier. Which is better, a class with 30 kids or a lecture hall with 350+ kids in it? Even the tests are bullshit cause the complicated math problems which are 50 pages long are multiple choice questions. This means if you ---- up on one of these 50 steps you get the whole problems wrong. The classes are too big to have people grade them and give partial credit. Also, at smaller campuses the professors actually know you and will give you extra points at the end if they know you tried. At big schools they don't know or care who you are.


At big schools like PSU your not a person, your a number. People feel like sheep and this is why there are soo many ------- riots up here.




The worst is the week before finals cause all you do is question why the ---- your putting yourself through all this bullshit and if its actually worth it. Every engineering student talks about going to a tech school cause its soo much nicer.


Bottom line, if you want to go for engineering you better be serious about it and ------- dedicated cause if you don't really want it, you won't make it a semester.


---- college

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Get ready for some hardcore ass raping. Math is everything. And if you want to get your enginnering degree done within 5 years, you gotta know it from the start. I transfered into engineering from another school and I'm soo far behind I'm fucked. I'm not graduating till 2007 cause of it and I'm 22 right now. :-\

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Well put. I just studied 4 days straight for my fisrt of the FOUR exams in my CCJ 2020 class. I took the exam about an hour ago and im pretty confident I blew it. It is a game of failing people around here. Weed out the "numbers"

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here at lake superior state, we're one of the smallest universities in the U.S., yet have one of the top engineering programs. we have equipment available to our undergrads that only master programs at other colleges get to use. We have stuff that places like Berkeley and Michigan use for their post graduate studies, and we offer it to undergrads. Plus, it's pretty laid back, and extremely cheap to go here.

boy was that a plug......

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isn't it funny how every school is a top engineering school? ::) Seriously about every school I've ever heard of people say thats a top engineering school.



And speaking of "weeding people out" The one manditory calc class was taught by the "math nazi" He would literally make girls cry in that class. He wouldn't take attendance but if you ratted out your friends he would give you bonus points. He would make the tests and say "Man, you guys are really in for it this Friday" The drop rate of the class was 80%

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---- calc.

I studied 4 months straight and got away with a C. And that was when i had time to study. I only took 8 hours that semester. :-\

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i agree with that...i went to ball state university last year in indiana for architecture. some of the hardest ---- in the work. all my classes had about 250 kids and are multiple choice and we take em online. ------- sucked balls. my architecutre classes were good cause theere were less kids and more one one with the teachers in the labs etc. im taking a semester off and jsut taking a couple classes at sacred heart here in fairfield then going back there full time next semester. good luck

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I second that, LSU is great.

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Where do you live? You need to be a resident of a state or fees are outrageous. I pay 3x the amount at UNLV cause I have only been here 9 months, takes a year to become a resident.

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Umass Lowell has the best plastics engineering program in the country. i think they might even be the only school with a specific program for it. i was in it, it was hard as ---- so i left. RPI and WPI are also 2 very good enginerring schools. theres lots of different engineering tho, so it'll vary a whole bunch.

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my girlfriend goes to sacred heart.. freshman studying biology... im lookin into RIT upstate new york and Pratt in brooklyn for computer animation.. rit has an engineering program, and supposedly that is a school that teaches well, and doesnt throw a book in front of you and give you the final exam 2 weeks later with no help with the work.. ive heard great things about rit from students.. just kind of a hike from my home town of meriden ct, 6 hours drives are a bitch

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Here are the schools I have experience with
MSOE Milwaukee school of engineering, small school you have to live in the dorms the first two years, not a lot of girls but it is a great school, very small class sizes, I honestly wish I never left,

UIC University o Illinois at Chicago pretty easy as colleges go , ranked pretty well, the entry level classes, are pretty big but the engineering classes are generally very small

UofI University of Illinois, I never attented but I have partied there a lot and its a great time, the school is ranked very well

Make sure you're serious before you go to school cause it's not just drinking and bitches, It is a lot of work.
Oh and DO NOT keep a girlfriend at home while you're away at school, you'll thank me later.

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Go the the best party school you can get into...

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---- that go to fashion school. Hot bitches like woah and the only guy competition you have are probably gay. Its all about the strategy

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I'm at the University of Connecticut (UConn) -- and it kicks major ass.

It's one of the top public universities in the United States and we can party like no other (do some google-ing).

The education is pretty good too, and the degree is quickly becoming quite valueable -- It's getting really competitive to get in here, though, since we did just win both men and womens basketball championships last year -- first school ever to do that.

But if you do get it... It's awesome.

Matt

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gpc for 7 credit houres a week. damn im lazy.

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that would be ASU ;D

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Don't listen to whitey. PSU is ------ awesome. I'm a mechanical engineering major in my sophomore year. Yes, your intro classes have 200 people, but you will take many classes with 30 or less. Of course, if you say you're not a math kid, engineering may not be for you. You just have to get through the first few classes... math 140, math 141, and chem 12 are all classes they use to separate the engineers from the engineering hopefuls that will end up in the business school. And we know how to drink our faces off here, too.

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ever think of Cal-Tech ?

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If you want to go into engineering, RPI is about as good as you can get. Thats where I'm at now. I'd def say its atleast worth checking out on the internet or something.

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Utah State University, very great engineering department. Well, USU has been listed on some of great inventions for the country. Research the school and see if you like.

For some advice, I would recommand you look into more of the standard of living for the location of the College. For instance, those big and famous universities, some are over rated. When they are over rated, your tuition is higher so you'll have to work harder. And since highly rated schools are very very urban, the cost of living is gonna be a pain too.

If I were you, seek for a paid job in the state that you are going into for the first year so you get instate tuition. Tuition is going to raise around 20 to 30 percent in 3 years, so instate will definately help you a lot.

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Go to CU Boulder its the party school

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I went to St. Joes in philly, it was expensive and hard (bio). My boy went to Widener for mechanical engineering, and he got a decent job with tha Navy. Drexel is also a good engineering school. I am currently at U of IL Urbana Champaign, and I heard their program is one of the top in the country. I dont think I could have done my undergrad here through, it is too easy to stop going to class when there are 400 other kids in the class.

Good Luck.

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Private therefore very expensive

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I wouldnt let cost defer you too much innitially. If your rich then you can afford the high costs and if your poor some of the higher costing schools are able to give you quite a financial package. For example: I applied to only one high cost school(RPI-42k a year). It ended up that I pay less to go here then I would have to go to UVM wich is my state university.

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It helps if your black

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY... its a great all around school with excellent engineering and business programs plus the ability to study at harvard, tufts, babson, bentley, BC, emerson, etc.

check it out... boston is sweet.