Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Top Questions

It is in downtown Atlanta. There are great opportunities for engineering students to get experience co-oping. There are 70{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} men and only 30{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} women.

The Tech tradition they'll never tell you about on the campus tour? CONSTRUCTION. Tearing up perfectly good sidewalks to put in decorative bricks, tearing down residence halls for parking lots, the new building that was supposed to open 2 semesters ago...it never ends. The worst part is when they block off streets and cut off your shortcut to class. And to all you Ivan Allen College students, don't let anybody tell you that we don't have "real" majors. People may smirk when I say I'm a history major up until the point they find out that I'm taking the research option and writing an undergraduate thesis. (Although the STAC and Management kids themselves admit they don't do much of anything.)

Your Future. You can do anything with a Georgia Tech Degree. Atlanta is amazing and its campus is very diverse.

It's one of only 2 schools in Georgia that offer a Mechanical Engineering degree and its ranked among the top 5 engineering schools in the nation.

georgia tech is unique in that it will suck your soul out through your mouth. everyone who isn't faculty or a student is black and hates everyone who is white and/or educated. living in atlanta made me a racist.

Something unique about my school is the fact that it is in a big city but it doesn't feel like it because the campus is really quite and no one would ever think it is in the middle of downtown Atlanta.

a nice benefit of tech is that the fraternity parties are all within walking distance of the dorms, so driving is not an issue. plus its in downtown atlanta which is pretty awesome, as long as you are 21.

very very hard, and would not come here if I knew what you have to go through, but now that i am almost done i am glad i will ahve a degree from here.

My biggest complaint with Tech is that it is a major research university. This isn't always terrible, and I definitely like us being on the forefront of some major breakthroughs, but I DO NOT think that it is the most important at a University geared toward EDUCATION. I have felt before that professors are there to research and research only. I'm not sure if all profs. are required to teach at some point, but, if so, they don't want to if they were hired to research, which makes them care very little about their students. Either that, or they're just assholes?

Tech isn't for everyone, but I love it. It does take a while to get used to it, but what freshman college student isn't out of their element? It is hard work and sometimes it can drive you crazy, but there are fun people there and a lot of interesting experiences to be had. The school is generous to their students: the fees pay for a lot of free things like some health care, workshops, free food (O yeah, there is free food everywhere! but it is almost always pizza), and other miscellaneous free services that come in handy from time to time. The administration work hard to make sure that Tech students have everything available that they could need/want.