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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Aerospace Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright I just completed my first semester at WPI. I really like the 7 weeks terms. It prevents burn out and makes studying for finals so much easier. The professors are really friendly and helpful and genuinely seem interested in you as a person. The student body is much geekier than I expected though, especially the guys. The girls aren't that bad. The girls are more down to earth than at other schools. Everyone is quite comfortable just grabbing on a jeans and sweatshirt instead of spending hours on their hair and makeup. I think the student body on a whole is quite friendly and approachable. The campus is beautiful and well kept. The dining hall offers a great variety of foods. Their desserts are especially good. Their cookies are to die for! Now on to the negatives... WPI students definitely lack school spirit. Homecoming was lame. I've attended 2 of the girls' soccer games and there was a grand total of 10 specatators at each game. I play a ton of sports and I find it disappointing how uninterested the student body is in sports and other school events. Also theres not much to do on campus on weeknights except go to club meetings,maybe an occasional comedy show. Theres a gaming night almost every Saturday. The surrounding area is pretty boring. Most ppl just stay on campus. There are no malls near by which is quite inconvenient for freshmen since we are not allowed to bring our cars. But overall I like WPI. You can have a good time here if u make the right friends. You definitely don't have to be a greek in order to have a social life. And if u do happen to come to WPI come check out the women's rugby team :) Faculty Accessibility: A+, Surrounding City: C- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 26 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=56469&uid=615'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The ECE and Chem Eng departments are excellent, but many of the other departments are not as good. Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 21 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=56402&uid=615'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The work is very challenging here--much more challenging than I expected it to be. I went to a really rigorous high school and was told my graduates from my high school that college was easy in comparison. So, I came to wpi expecting a break. I did not get a break. Most of the kids in my calc class failed our first mid-term, and the highest grade in my seminar class last year was a whopping 89. That said, the professors are generally very good and obviously intelligent, though I don't know why they'd hire my math teacher, who can't speak english very well and is almost unintelligable. The music department is AWESOME--really, really impressive, which I did NOT expect. I can't stress enough how impressive it is. In addition, there are tons of kids who are passionate about music here. There are multiple music groups--orchestra, jazz band, concert band, pep band, ensembles, quartettes, everything. I have to say the place seems to be bursting with money. Throughout orientation it was repeated several times that wpi is ranked in the top ten for national universities with the highest salary for its graduates, and they seem to donate to the school a fair bit. The only thing I can point out about the school that is dissapointing is that the student body doesn't seem to be that intellectual--only a small percentage care, or know of, current events, politics, or what's happening outside of worcester in general, not to mention across the globe in iraq. Though they are lacking in this sense, the kids here and overall very friendly. Faculty Accessibility: A, Individual Value: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 11 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=54823&uid=615'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright WPI is a school you love or hate. I love WPI. It's a small school with a very individual and progressive program. Some people have a hard time keeping up with the 4 7-week terms system. You only get about 28 hrs of class time, so you have to do a lot of learnign outside. We have three big projects that you can throw yourself into. If you don't like working groups (engineers should be able to though)or focusing on one project for months, or writing long thesis-style papers, then watch out. There's a lot of history at WPI, and some great discoveries have/are being made there (bithrplace of rocket science). It's a cool little school, teachers are awesome, projects are fun, and you have wonderful career options coming out. Education Quality: A, University Resource Use: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 06 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=46747&uid=615'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ... 8    Next

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