Originally posted on campus encounters:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (visited 7/28/15)
The city of Troy as seem from campus.
The armory
Located up the hill from downtown Troy, RPI is a beautiful campus with eclectic architecture ranging from a new glass performing arts center to an old armory. The university itself feels very separated from the city even though it’s mere blocks away from downtown. Troy itself doesn’t have a great reputation, but the university itself is in a nice, relatively safe neighborhood.
The “Fishbowl”
The university has a long-standing reputation for engineering. In fact, it was the first university to offer civil engineering in the English-speaking world. Don’t let this reputation fool you, though. “I was surprised at the students. I thought it would be full of engineering nerds, and it’s not that way at all!” said the tour guide. Unfortunately, that was one of the few times I could get him “off script” so…
View original 873 more words
from WordPress http://ift.tt/1jsB0jm
No comments:
Post a Comment