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Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki
I've been spending a few weekends at WPI and I'm not at all impressed with the night life (I go to school in Boston - big difference, Worcester is a "wannabe" little city that seems dull).:
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Worcester is a pretty crappy city outside of the area around campus. It's what I expected when I chose to go to WPI though, since it's an industrial city.
I think the biggest difference between WPI and any other school would be the quarter system. WPI is on 7 week quarters, where as most quarter schools are on 10-11 week quarters, and semesters run 14+ weeks. This means it's VERY fast paced. In 7 weeks, you learn what people are learning in 10-14 weeks at other schools.
I've only had one professor that was actually bad. The rest were all decent to very good.
Class sizes are in general pretty small. Physics, Chem, Bio all end up as large lectures. Calculus is pretty much less than 40 people per lecture. Once you get past the introductory stuff it drops even lower.
The campus itself is nice. I visited MIT and Harvard before I went to visit WPI, and I liked WPI's campus better than both.
It's a smaller school so you get to know more people, and you know them better than you would at a large university.
Any specific questions, feel free to PM me, IM me, whatever
