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I graduated from RPI summa cum laude, with a dual major, in two honor societies, and went straight to a tech giant, working as a software engineer. So I have s
by hitekker 8y ago
I graduated from RPI summa cum laude, with a dual major, in two honor societies, and went straight to a tech giant, working as a software engineer.
So I have standing to say that RPI has been mismanaged as an institution. Besides my personal experience, RPI's political troubles are well-documented and well-known [1][2][3]. With failed leadership and failed policies, this university has come to sit below CMU which itself is just below MIT.
UT Austin is a fine school from what I heard, and does not seem to have the toxicity of the RPI brand. That is, a second-rate school for second-rate students.
[1]https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Leader-Set-a-Toxic/240655 https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-One-Leader-Set-a-Toxic...
[2]https://news.vice.com/article/americas-highest-paid-college-president-is-dragging-her-school-into-crippling-debt https://news.vice.com/article/americas-highest-paid-college-...
[3] https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Troubled-alumni-stop-donating-12512869.php https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Troubled-alumni-sto...
Man, does this list goes on.
- audiolion 8y agoMy brother graduated from RPI early because stuff with Shirley was so bad, she is a crazy dictator of a leader and I heard horror stories from both Professors who were under immense pressure to publish and students who were paying 65k a year for an education from professors who were under too much pressure to publish to be effective teachers.
- hitekker 8y agoExactly. My professor who taught one of my Communication courses was so underpaid that the Times Union covered her. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Campus-Notebook-RPI-adjunct-was-like-being-a-4905383.php https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Campus-Notebook-RPI... RPI is a neverending horror story.