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Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
RPI will give you a solid education in many technical fields, and has great job placement. However, I found that the education there was one-sided, and students are more interested in working the system than actually learning. Good luck if you want to take any interesting humanities courses.

There are a lot of arrogant people at RPI, but overall it was not difficult to find friendly people. The ratio definately wore me down, even though I thought it would not be a big deal when i picked RPI. I joined a fraternity, and made some great friends through the greek system. However, the social life got boring real quick, because I got tired of drinking and the poor bar scene in troy. There was not much else to do in the area which interested me, and despite the friendliness of many RPI students I found I was not interested by most of the people I met. I am transferring from RPI, after 3 semesters there.

Overall, I don't reccomend RPI. It lacks diversity in the community (there isnt much of one) as well as education. There is no school spirit (unless you call "rpi sucks" school spirit), and "broken spirit" describes the atmosphere perfectly. I might have made it sound worse than it is; you can certainly go to RPI and have a great time, I did. However, there are so many schools out there with more to offer if you are willing to give up a few grand in your starting salary.

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