Texas A & M University - College Station

Date: Sep 19 2005
Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
This is a school that people either love or they hate. If a

traditional college experience

is what you are looking for, then A&M is the place for you. By and large, students work their tails off during the week, then spend the weekend both studying and partying. Saturdays in the fall are entirely devoted to football. A&M has largely been shielded from many of the problems of other schools (drugs, crime etc) and while the campus is huge, it is impossible to walk through campus during the day without runing into several people you know. Students are always willing to help each other, and if you look lost, you will soon have a group of people willing to walk you to wherever you are going.

The ME Department at A&M is truly exceptional. There exists a true mix of Professors who would truly do anything to help a student, and those who could care less about anything but their research. The best example of this would be that for one particularly difficult class, the teaching professor could not care less about his students, so another professor took countless hours out of his schedule to help us understand the material, help us solve homework and project problems, and anwser any random questions involved. If you can survive the rigorous coursework, you will graduate with the knowledge that you can tackle any problem given to you during your career. This confidence stems from the challenges that you and your fellow students overcome to solve the increasingly difficult problems presented by professors demanding excellence. In all, the help of the caring professors and the sense of acomplishment are the lasting legacy, letting frusturating tests, sleepless weeks, and apathetic professors become funny stories. The look on people's faces when you tell them that you graduated from A&M with a ME degree is truly reward enough for all the hard work.