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Nathaniel Firethorn

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An interesting little college
« on: March 13, 2006, 05:24:12 PM »
Webb Institute of Naval Architecture.

http://www.webb-institute.edu/

75 students total. 8 students per faculty member. Competitiveness on par with MIT. Campus is an estate on Long Island. Every student on full scholarship. 100% placement rate.

No way was I mature enough for that when I was of age. Now it sounds like paradise.

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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2006, 05:46:11 PM »
Darn! that looks nice. And I easily qualify to apply too. To bad I really am not interested in naval architechture and marine engineering.

You know of something similar for electrical engineering? Wink
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2006, 05:14:37 AM »
Sorry, cosine, I don't. But don't write it off. After reading some of Edward Ellsberg's books, doing stuff at sea looks like it can be a fascinating business and excellent money.  (Even stuff I'd thought was dead boring, like salvage. Cheesy )

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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2006, 09:40:10 AM »
Looks interesting.  Reading their pages I was thinking that it looked like the kind of school that would have a Corps of Cadets and run on a military model.  Then getting even further into their pages it definately looked like you'd expect it to be a military school (the honor code, the age limits, the requirement that students are unmarried).  Yet, I see nothing in there about a Corps of Cadets or it being a military school.  Strange.

Anyway, it does look interesting.  Great for people with an apptitude for such things.  Unfortunately, I'm way too old (35, 11 years older than their cut off), I don't have the math apptitude, and the engineering courses would probably have been terrible for me.  It also doesn't help that I have no interest in working with "things" (though working on ships would be interesting) as I'm more of a people person, and engineering never interested me (teaching, psychology, social work, medicine, history- those are the kinds of things that interest me).
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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2006, 10:22:28 AM »
I've always been interested in naval architecture - the female, bikini-friendly kind.

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