<p>I have a junior son looking at engineering schools and would appreciate any info or thoughts about WPI. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm not at WPI yet but I will be in less than four months :) so I will try to help you...
1. The campus is pretty nice. I like it b/c it is sort of urban, but it definitely has a campus too.</p>
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<li><p>Where most schools have semesters, WPI have 4 7-week terms. You have 3 classes a term and the learning seems to be pretty intense.</p></li>
<li><p>I chose WPI for its projects. You have 3 projects while at WPI. They are a Humanities Project, and Interactive Project, and a Major Project.</p></li>
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<p>This is what WPI says about the projects:
* Humanities and Arts Project. Choose a topic in an area of humanities or arts that interests you, such as art or music or philosophy, and explore it in depth through a sequence of courses that you choose. Then complete an original scholarly or creative work in that area.
* Interactive Project. Work in a student team to tackle an issue that relates science and technology to society. (Translation: This is your chance to solve problems that matter to people and communities.)
* Major Project. Design and build some hardware. Make a new discovery in the lab. Develop a new process. This is where you put what you learn about your major field into action, working in a team to define a problem, then developing a novel and creative solution.</p>
<p>They are the icing on the cake for me b/c I am really a hands on learner. It is usually for one of these projects that people go abroad to tons of different places.</p>
<p>Well those are the things that helped me choose WPI, if you have any questions feel free to ask me! The WPI website is also pretty good, it is
<a href="http://www.wpi.edu%5B/url%5D">www.wpi.edu</a></p>
<p>Good Luck to you and your son in the college search!</p>
<p>Thank you princess! That was helpful advice. Good luck at WPI.</p>