Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Nathaniel Firethorn on March 13, 2006, 05:24:12 PM
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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.
Sigh...
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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?
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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. )
- NF
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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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I've always been interested in naval architecture - the female, bikini-friendly kind.
Brad