Troy, the city RPI is in, is a really unique place. Most people would call it a dump, but I found it pretty darn awesome. As James Kunstler put it: "The late

Troy, the city RPI is in, is a really unique place. Most people would call it a dump, but I found it pretty darn awesome. As James Kunstler put it: "The late 20th century bypassed it so completely that it evaded the kind of false urban renewal that left so many other towns wrecked." If you walk around downtown you can be go from a modern ghetto to a '20s boom town and back again in 5 minutes. The mix is surreal and I've never been anywhere else like it. I'm glad after graduating I ended up in Boston, another city that has an amazing amount of preserved history. Otherwise, I'd be missing Troy a little too much. p.s. This talk by James Kunstler is awesome: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/121 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/121 "Technosis externality clusterfuck" hah