<p>We try to keep it hopping…</p>
<p>Students tend to call it Illinois Tech and our sports teams are known by that. IIT tends to be a mouthful if you say it fast and all too many people call us ITT (in my 31 years as a faculty member, it still annoys me) because it just is more natural to pronounce. I think that the prestige is not in the name but in the reputation and that is what we are trying to raise awareness about. After all Gerogia Tech and Cal Tech are plenty pretigious.</p>