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A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - Hulk01 - 04-03-2015
This should be help you choose the best school for
1. MIT. No recent bowl appearances.
2. Stanford. Res ipsa loquitor.
3. CalTech. Appearances at Rose Bowl confined to ingenious parade floats.
4. Cal Berkeley. Most recent Rose Bowl game program had to be carbon-dated to determine date of teams appearance.Â
5. Georgia Tech. Mascot looks like Saturday Night Live killer bee circa John Belushi.
6, Illinois. Best known for host towns misspelling of the word champagne.
7. Michigan. Slaughtered by Stanford in 1972 Rose Bowl.Â
8. Carnegie Mellon. Founded on proceeds from Carnegies famous self-improvement book.Â
10. Cornell. Has educations longest and hardest-to-remember motto; so long its illegible on any Cornell logo smaller than your head.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - CTcard - 04-03-2015
(04-03-2015, 06:16 AM)Hulk01 link Wrote:10. Cornell. Has educations longest and hardest-to-remember motto; so long its illegible on any Cornell logo smaller than your head.
As I remember from my days there, also notably uninspiring and incorrect.
I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - fullmetal - 04-03-2015
(04-03-2015, 06:16 AM)Hulk01 link Wrote:10. Cornell. Has educations longest and hardest-to-remember motto; so long its illegible on any Cornell logo smaller than your head.
Cornell has a hospitality major. Basically, hotel management. In that major, you can take a class on wine-tasting. A surprising number of people fail that class, I was told.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - FarmBoy - 04-03-2015
Quote:Cornell has a hospitality major. Basically, hotel management. In that major, you can take a class on wine-tasting. A surprising number of people fail that class, I was told.
They're supposed to be the #1 place for hospitality, I hear. I know the wine tasting classes are very popular, but I had never heard of people failing. I'd be surprised if a single student failed the class, based on Cornell's bona fides as a drinking mecca. Of course, perhaps an occasional Mormon signs up for the class without realizing the fundamental task...
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - pefloresjr - 04-03-2015
What happened to No. 9?
Cheers,
Pete F.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - jacketree - 04-03-2015
5. The word "engineer" in the school's fight song four times. The word "drink" twice. "Whiskey" and "rum"with equal billing at one each.
QFT.
Go Jackets.....
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - oman - 04-04-2015
Good God Cornell would make me drink hard.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - Bruce Wang - 04-04-2015
(04-03-2015, 02:26 PM)jacketree link Wrote:5. The word "engineer" in the school's fight song four times. The word "drink" twice. "Whiskey" and "rum"with equal billing at one each.
QFT.
Go Jackets.....
I give GIT credit for the academic standards they impose on their scholar-athletes. Apparently they require all students to complete the equivalent of Math 41 & 42 and CS106A. Even we don't do that.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - 82lsju - 04-04-2015
(04-03-2015, 02:26 PM)jacketree link Wrote:5. The word "engineer" in the school's fight song four times. The word "drink" twice. "Whiskey" and "rum"with equal billing at one each.
QFT.
Go Jackets.....
and to bring it back to Stanford, this seems to be to the same drinking tune as the Rambling Wreck song, see page 29 here
https://stanfordlawyer.law.stanford.edu/issues/archive/Stanford_Lawyer_issue-07_1971-SPRING_front.pdf
In 1910-11 Stanford was as "dry" as Dr. Jordan could make it and any student going to Menlo Park for "liquid refreshments" and caught at it, was in danger of suspension, sometimes for a year. This led to the alibi that "My eyes were weak and I had to rest a year" in the Road to Menlo Song. (from memory)
Oh, there's the road to Menlo
As plain, as plain can be.
And if you want to see a wreck
Just take a look at me.
For I have been to Menlo and tasted of the beer;
And that's the reason my eyes are weak
And I had to rest a year.
I wish I had an ocean of rum and sugar a million pound.
The dear old Quad to mix it in.
The chimney to stir it round
I'd drink a toast to the cardinal
So glorious and so true, and join in
the rollicking chorus
To hell with the Gold and Blue.
see some other lyrics here
https://books.google.com/books?id=5hs5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=%22i+wish+i+had+an+ocean+of+rum%22+stanford&source=bl&ots=IM3sQjwYpB&sig=C6Bj8WsIAMBdxAk8wXR9PaIZiH0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UAYgVeavBI3woATA64LgAQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22i%20wish%20i%20had%20an%20ocean%20of%20rum%22%20stanford&f=false
and here
https://books.google.com/books?id=2GINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%22i+wish+i+had+an+ocean+of+rum%22+stanford&source=bl&ots=fjHbrqJm1y&sig=gA8XeFVAEOe7Z84LPn8j9xiDDKw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UAYgVeavBI3woATA64LgAQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22i%20wish%20i%20had%20an%20ocean%20of%20rum%22%20stanford&f=false
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - terry - 04-04-2015
(04-04-2015, 08:39 AM)82lsju link Wrote:I wish I had an ocean of rum and sugar a million pound.
The dear old Quad to mix it in.
The chimney to stir it round
I'd drink a toast to the cardinal
Good find on those old song lyrics!
The "chimney" mentioned in the lyrics was a 75-foot chimney next to the old power plant. It can be seen in the picture below. It collapsed in the 1906 earthquake, killing a man.
![[Image: gp_box36_7174_quad.jpg]](http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/gallery/structures/quad/images/gp_box36_7174_quad.jpg)
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - CowboyIndian - 04-04-2015
Cornell also has a renowned (eastern-tending) vet school. Just sayin'.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - French Rage - 04-04-2015
Cornell undergrad here. I never got around to taking the wines course myself, but practically everyone I knew did. While I don't know the pass/fail percentage, from what I heard it wasn't just sitting around getting sloshed; the exams did really test you knew your stuff about wines. And while, as an engineer, the hotel school was used a lot as a punchline, if your interest was in hospitality it seemed to get you what you needed. My frat little graduated from there and is now a somilier (sp?) somewhere up in NAPA, so good for him.
The vet school is tops in the nation, law school is pretty decent, and engineering ranks in the top 10. As they say, it's the easiest Ivy to get into and the hardest to stay in. In the meantime, being cold and in the middle of nowhere, there's plenty of hockey to watch and drinking to do.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - CowboyIndian - 04-04-2015
(04-04-2015, 10:30 AM)French Rage link Wrote:The vet school is tops in the nation.
Have not seen any rankings but we are pretty well sold on UC-Davis out here.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - CornFed - 04-04-2015
(04-04-2015, 11:26 AM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:[quote author=French Rage link=topic=11988.msg116122#msg116122 date=1428168634]
The vet school is tops in the nation.
Have not seen any rankings but we are pretty well sold on UC-Davis out here.
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Colorado State's veterinary school is also among the best.
I had a nephew who got his MBA at Cornell in their Hospitality Services program. He is currently in hotel development and speaks very highly of the program.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - French Rage - 04-04-2015
(04-04-2015, 11:26 AM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:[quote author=French Rage link=topic=11988.msg116122#msg116122 date=1428168634]
The vet school is tops in the nation.
Have not seen any rankings but we are pretty well sold on UC-Davis out here.
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Perhaps the rankings have changed in the last 10 years and perhaps the people I knew getting their Animal Science degrees were a bit biased; I'm sure getting a vet degree from either school puts you in a great spot. I actually know someone who got their vet/PhD degrees from Davis and is know a professor at the Cornell vet school; which is weird that someone my age is now a professor at my alma mater.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - 82 Card - 04-04-2015
(04-03-2015, 09:55 AM)fullmetal link Wrote:[quote author=Hulk01 link=topic=11988.msg116017#msg116017 date=1428066979]10. Cornell. Has educations longest and hardest-to-remember motto; so long its illegible on any Cornell logo smaller than your head.
Cornell has a hospitality major. Basically, hotel management. In that major, you can take a class on wine-tasting. A surprising number of people fail that class, I was told.
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Cornell also has a lumber jack team. One of the people I work with was an ax thrower for them.
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - yvonne - 04-04-2015
Did he wear ladies' clothing and hang around in bars?
Re: A guide to recruits considering America's Top Ten Engineering Programs - 82 Card - 04-04-2015
(04-04-2015, 05:57 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:Did he wear ladies' clothing and hang around in bars?
She probably hung around bars but I doubt she wore stereotypical ladies clothing most of the time.