Which college campuses are the best for techies?

[minus1972]

hey-
I'm looking at colleges and I was wondering if anyone knew of any school that has a really wired campus (ex. new/updated computers, good LAN, fast connection, good labs, and good compSci courses). Any location is acceptable, but the Northeast US would be best. Thanks.

 

[SmiZ]

I'm at RIT, we have a dual OC3 connection....pretty damn speedy. I posted yesterday about how we are starting the Country's first computer college.

No one seemed to care though...

 

[tomcat]

Carnegie Mellon has a wireless lan across the whole campus, also they were named the #1 wired school by yahoo internet life magazine you'll want to take a look at that article

Carnegie is my top choice for schools I want to go to.. c'mon.. take me!

 

[nateholtrop]

Go to Duke they have SOOO many hot girls you are bound to get laid! hahaha

Nate

 

[tomcat]

Doesnt RIT have a firewall and you can't get your own IP in dorms? Thats pretty important for those of us who do heavy data transfers LMK

 

[SmiZ]

tomcat:


You better believe that's a lie....

The only port they have closed here is the one for napster. If you really love napster, just use napigator and problem is solved. Personally I use audiogalaxy so no worries for me.

 

[minus1972]

cool; damn fast replies too...I'll check them out.

anyone else want to toss some in?

<EDIT> damn, I haven't taken chemistry and don't plan on it...is this gonna hurt me in a search for a tech school?

 

[tomcat]

SmiZ: do you get your own IP, and any limits on bandwidth?

 

[SmiZ]

TomCat:

Yes to question 1 and no to question 2.

I have friends who work for Res-Net (basically the sys admins for campus).
You'll only see trouble if you're eating up huge amounts of bandwidth. They keep track of the top 10 users per month and monitor them for illegal activity. There's something like 5000 people on campus, so they only watch the top offenders. My roommate last year at one point was running a large &quot;site&quot;. He was doing 100GB per day of transfers. :Q

He was on that top ten list, but he worked at Res-Net as well, so it was &quot;overlooked&quot;.

I was pulling files last night at 700kbps.

 

[Capn]

I must plug my school, RPI. We're no. 7 on that yahoo list and used to be no. 4. Although they seem to have some things wrong on our judging sheet, like no tech support and no online transcripts so perhaps that would bump us up a bit. Anyhow, we're not as cheap as RIT and we've got less students, but I believe we're very near the top as far as tech schools go in the Northeast. There's MIT, then Cornell, then RPI (imho).

 

[convex]

UT austin, i'm kind of biased though..

 

[BDawg]

Wake Forest is highly wired (wireless all around). The Comp Sci dept. is small, but very good. That was one of the major factors for having the presidential debate there.

And no, don't go to Duke for the Duke girls...the UNC girls are much hotter (as much as it pains me to say anything nice about UNC).

 

[tontod]

Georgia Tech is pretty good too. Napster is allowed too

 

[nateholtrop]

really dawg...ok! /me writes out his transfer app to UNC heheh


Nate

 

[Modeps]

who cares if napster is allowed, they are gonna start charging soon.

 

[dcdomain]

Carnegie sucks... but the wireless lan is pretty cool. Too bad I don't have a laptop right now to take advantage of it. We have some pretty decent clusters, but we aren't a big school, so I don't know how others compare. Need any more info... contact me... I'll do my best to persuade you not to come here hehehe.

 

[minus1972]

^

 

[xodarap]

Do you want to play with comps or learn about them?

$mu has a great engeenering program our LAN stinks

 

[Scrapster]

Damn, UWash. is 91st on the list. Higher than washington state and western washington u.

 

[eakers]

what i would do to have rez net in my home.
at ryerson and at guelph my god is it fast.
and sending files to someone in your own building you can get up to 2 megs/sec

*kat. <-- wants to have a server in her basement.

 

[eakers]

oh university of waterloo is number one for computer science.

*kat. <-- knows ppl in that program.

 

[DaveJ]

TCU has a pretty good network... gigabit backbone, 100MB switched connection to the dorms, fractional DS3 to Internet1 (12MB up/12MB down), OC3 to Internet2. Over 250 lab machines, minimum spec of a P166 (but only in the smallest labs, vast majority of lab machines are P3's). Wireless access in the Library, with laptops available for checkout.

And yes, I'm biased... Went to school there for 4 years, now I'm one of the sysadmins...

Dave

 

[minus1972]

cool. how do these schools stack up requirements-wise, or is there a good general listing I could check for that?

 

[GeekDrew]

I'm a sophmore in highschool, and am interested in what college i should go to also. I live in southcentral ohio, and my parents decided that they want me to go to someplace nearby. I really don't care, as long as it is within a few states distance. (i.e. somewhere between PA-IL-KY)

Anyone have any advice as to what I should study in highschool? I want to be a network administrator or something else related to computers. Haven't really decided what I want to be yet.

 

[nateholtrop]

take harder classes like calc and physics and just try to get your gpa up...


/me reconsiders his whole 2 years assosciates thing..

Nate