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<p>I mean along the lines on MIT,Caltech…Where they hack scoreboards, steal cannon, hack the MBTA,dump sodium in the Charles, and do things like this
[MIT</a> hack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia”>Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>Also I want them to pump out awesome research by the truckload.</p>

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<p>What else are you interested in? Major? size? location?</p>

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<p>Either Aerospace/Mech/Electical Engineering or Physics.</p>

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<p>any tech/engineering school probably has a strong geek culture. try carnegie mellon. </p>

<p>what else are you looking for in a school?</p>

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<p>Strong Science and Engineering program
Lots and Lots of Research
and what I already posted</p>

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<p>Harvey Mudd College sounds like something else you should look at.</p>

<p>Edit: Nice username, by the way. Its a fair assumption that its referring to Portal, right?</p>

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<p>They dumped sodium in water? Isn’t that dangerous (if I remember right, sodium is scarily reactive with water)?</p>

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<p>Caltech did that too, and with lithium and potassium too</p>

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<p>Of course it’s dangerous. And it makes a big explosion.</p>

<p>That’s why it’s fun.</p>

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<p>Interesting concept of fun. ;)</p>

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<p>People have already mentioned them, but, Carnegie Mellon and Harvey Mudd.</p>

<p>(I am an MIT alum, and those two and Caltech are the ones that I normally heard people describe as being both very strong engineering schools and similar culturally to us.)</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins also fits the bill.</p>

<p>Hopkins students once stole “Testudo”, the University of Maryland’s mascot (a huge and heavy statue of a terrapin turtle) before a lacrosse game and, when it appeared at Hopkins, a riot ensued. Testudo is now fully embedded in concrete at College Park.</p>

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<p>O course I am refer to Portal</p>

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<p>O course I am refer to Portal
So I got </p>

<p>CMU
Harvey Mudd
Hopkins to some extant </p>

<p>any place else?</p>

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<p>The MIT sodium drop is controversial, particularly after last year, when it may have caused some serious burns to cleanup crews. Goggle ‘MIT sodium drop’ for more info. Generally, it is tossed into the Charles in modest quantities from a bridge. Quanties vary from year to year - up to a pound, I’ve heard.</p>

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<p>^^^^^
Still sounds like fun</p>

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<p>For the sake of your pocketbook, you might investigate Cooper Union (in NYC) and Olin (in Boston). I can’t speak to their “geek” culture, but they are selective, techy, and potentially tuition-free.</p>

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<p>^^^
Isn’t Olin even harder to get in then MIT?</p>

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<p>bump
(10 char min)</p>

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<p>Olin is awesome, but I’ve never heard of any really big, MIT-style hacks happening there.</p>