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RPI 2013/14 Part II: The HFH is Covered with Frozen Drivel

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TuteScrooge said:
Time for me to chime in.

I have a couple of data points, I attended from '75 -'79 (BS in Biology), and tuition was in the $5.5-7K range if I remember correctly. My folks paid for my tuition and R+B, I paid for all incidentals (books, booze, travel), Went from there to Univ of Wisc. for a PhD. I can't say that RPI has been THE critical item in my pedigree, but I can say that it has opened some doors, and it gave me a solid background in chemistry and math which have served me in good stead during my career. I was one of the few biologists that understood differential equations and how to apply them to biological systems; enabling a move over to the biology/computer interface arena a few years ago; a place where some biologists and computer scientists fear to tread. Been gainfully employed for the past ~30 years in pharma drug discovery.

Second data point is eldest son, graduated from the 'Tute in 2010, with a BS in EE. Immediately found a job in his field (during a tough economy), partially due to the name recognition of RPI (several of the Sr. VPs have ties to the school). He got scholarships (leadership and legacy) that brought the cost down to in-state costs at UCONN, so his (mine?) ROI is great.

Regarding how to pay for this, we started planning when our kids were born. We always figured that they would go to post-secondary schooling of some sort, and even then we knew it was going to get really expensive. We set up trust funds for their education prior to their first birthday, and kept kicking in. While this killed any chance for need-based grants, it let me sleep at night. We did the same deal, tuition + room + board, they did the other bits. So our kids got out of 4 year private school with no debt and a promise that they would pay it forward to their kids.

As an aside, my Dad went to Clarkson, and he always encouraged me to go to RPI. I looked at CCT (as it was called then), and just didn't feel the love. It's a good school, but not on the same level as RPI.
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My 2 cents (no pun of course)...It'd be hard to quantify the value/ROI down to the dollar level, but I feel I got my $$ worth and then some. For an entry-level BSME job, what I learned, both academically, and working within a team (AML shout-out) outshone most of my "fresh-out" colleagues. Now, I'm on the other side of the recruiting table and I'd say even though it really depends on the kid (I work with really diverse people w pedigrees ranging from MIT to Northeastern), RPI still presents a large number of top-notch candidates, only to be challenged by Cornell, and the occasional Big 10 (Michigan, Wisconsin) candidate we speak to. The economics of today, and the state of engineering in the US, would make you scratch your head a little harder, but alum or not, but for engineering, I'm still a proponent of an RPI education...
 
Re: RPI 2013/14 Part II: The HFH is Covered with Frozen Drivel

The problem is that we're not playing against the media.

For those who do not live in the area, we had a foot of snow yesterday and it's supposed to go down to about 15-20 below tonight. The HFH is covered with lots of frozen everything!
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
The problem is that we're not playing against the media.

For those who do not live in the area, we had a foot of snow yesterday and it's supposed to go down to about 15-20 below tonight. The HFH is covered with lots of frozen everything!
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Just like an old time Troy winter! We got hit here in central NJ with almost 11 inches and the high temp for the day is now 18 but allegedly heading down to just below zero tonight. it has not been minus here in years and being so close to the ocean, it really takes a horrible amount of cold to drive the temps down that far. Of course, -1 here feels just about -28 in Troy.
 
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We get the 7 PM CST (8 PM EST) game tomorrow since Colgate beat Minnesota in a shootout.
 
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Next year's ECAC non-travel-partner schedule courtesy of a post on eLynah http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,190628,190628,page=1#msg-190628. It also includes coordinated women's games.

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11/07/2014 Harvard
11/08/2014 Dartmouth
11/14/2014 Princeton
11/15/2014 Quinnipiac
12/05/2014 @ Yale
12/06/2014 @ Brown
01/09/2015 @ Quinnipiac
01/10/2015 @ Princeton
01/16/2015 Colgate
01/17/2015 Cornell
01/30/2015 @ Dartmouth
01/31/2015 @ Harvard
02/06/2015 @ St. Lawrence
02/07/2015 @ Clarkson
02/13/2015 Brown
02/14/2015 Yale
02/20/2015 @ Cornell
02/21/2015 @ Colgate
02/27/2015 St. Lawrence
02/28/2015 Clarkson

I apologize for any transcription errors.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Next year's ECAC non-travel-partner schedule courtesy of a post on eLynah http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,190628,190628,page=1#msg-190628. It also includes coordinated women's games.

Code: 
11/07/2014 Harvard
11/08/2014 Dartmouth
11/14/2014 Princeton
11/15/2014 Quinnipiac
12/05/2014 @ Yale
12/06/2014 @ Brown
01/09/2015 @ Quinnipiac
01/10/2015 @ Princeton
01/16/2015 Colgate
01/17/2015 Cornell
01/30/2015 @ Dartmouth
01/31/2015 @ Harvard
02/06/2015 @ St. Lawrence
02/07/2015 @ Clarkson
02/13/2015 Brown
02/14/2015 Yale
02/20/2015 @ Cornell
02/21/2015 @ Colgate
02/27/2015 St. Lawrence
02/28/2015 Clarkson

I apologize for any transcription errors.
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This would make Black Friday vs. either Union or Harvard again, and Freakout expected to be vs. Yale. I know they recently adjusted when the students start, so probably won't have RPI-TV (or at least very limited) or band for Colgate/Cornell. Thanksgiving is the 27th and Union always has the previous week off for finals, so unless our games are the 23rd/24th of January, we may see a split up series with Union. We may also be stuck with "Black Saturday", because of the tendency of a third game that would take place on January 24th.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Next year's ECAC non-travel-partner schedule courtesy of a post on eLynah http://elf.elynah.com/read.php?1,190628,190628,page=1#msg-190628. It also includes coordinated women's games.

Code: 
11/07/2014 Harvard
11/08/2014 Dartmouth
11/14/2014 Princeton
11/15/2014 Quinnipiac
12/05/2014 @ Yale
12/06/2014 @ Brown
01/09/2015 @ Quinnipiac
01/10/2015 @ Princeton
01/16/2015 Colgate
01/17/2015 Cornell
01/30/2015 @ Dartmouth
01/31/2015 @ Harvard
02/06/2015 @ St. Lawrence
02/07/2015 @ Clarkson
02/13/2015 Brown
02/14/2015 Yale
02/20/2015 @ Cornell
02/21/2015 @ Colgate
02/27/2015 St. Lawrence
02/28/2015 Clarkson

I apologize for any transcription errors.
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That's great Ralph, but I am still working on this years schedule. ;)
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
This would make Black Friday vs. either Union or Harvard again, and Freakout expected to be vs. Yale. I know they recently adjusted when the students start, so probably won't have RPI-TV (or at least very limited) or band for Colgate/Cornell. Thanksgiving is the 27th and Union always has the previous week off for finals, so unless our games are the 23rd/24th of January, we may see a split up series with Union. We may also be stuck with "Black Saturday", because of the tendency of a third game that would take place on January 24th.
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Freakout on Valentine's Day? I recall people thinking that it was a bad idea the last time it happened.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Do you think they're going to waste a money making game by putting it vs. Clarkson?
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I didn't say you weren't right, just that several people thought it wasn't an appropriate way to spend Valentine's Day when this happened last.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I didn't say you weren't right, just that several people thought it wasn't an appropriate way to spend Valentine's Day when this happened last.
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Tell me about it, given FlagDUDETTE isn't too enthused about spending Valentine's Day at Starr Rink. I told her that every "go out" place jacks up their prices on holidays because it's fairly inelastic, and that I show her that I love her 365-366 days out of the year; one day shouldn't make the others less meaningful.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Tell me about it, given FlagDUDETTE isn't too enthused about spending Valentine's Day at Starr Rink. I told her that every "go out" place jacks up their prices on holidays because it's fairly inelastic, and that I show her that I love her 365-366 days out of the year; one day shouldn't make the others less meaningful.
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Speaking of elastic, I don't think your blow up friend really looks at the calendar so don't sweat it.
 
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johnk said:
Speaking of elastic, I don't think your blow up friend really looks at the calendar so don't sweat it.
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She's a real person. Would you like to meet her? Or will you invoke "right to refuse service" to avoid this? ;)
 
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