2006 high school grads - final college decisions

[Dillon Compton]

Congrats to all the MITers, and Greg, good job with Olin- I was going to apply, but I decided not to. Actually, the only "engineering" school I appled to was WPI.

Was accepted at WPI, Hampshire, and Hofstra Honors College.

I'm going to Hampshire College, with the intent to focus on biomimetical engineering & organic computing in robotic systems. They have a fun (albeit small) shop there, and a first-year student just modded an old bridgeport and turned it into a 3-axis CNC. I'll probably be taking some/all of my intro to engineeringish courses at UMASS Amherst or Amherst College, as they both have more "standard" curricula, but I'll be doing most of my Cog. Science and Comp. work at Hampshire, I imagine.

For those of you who dont know, which is probably most, Hampshire College is part of the "Five College" consortium; students at Amherst, Hampshire, UMass Amherst, Smith, and Holyoke are allowed to take courses at any of the colleges for no additional charge. Additionally, every student at Hampshire designs their own major, so you are literally free to do whatever you want with your education.