RPI worth the debt?

jdasmom
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:24:12 +0000

My son is now an RPI senior so the comments here bring me back to August 2007 when we brought him to campus for the start his freshman year. While we drove home that day with the normal parental mixed feelings, I can tell you that our son has had an extremely positive experience at RPI. The academics have been demanding but after doing paid internships for the past two summers, I think our son realizes how well RPI is preparing him for an engineering career. He has also had a lot of fun there and made very good friends. He has always looked forward to getting back to campus after academic/summer breaks and I think that is a common sentiment amongst the students. (My cousin reports that her daughter is always happy to get back to RPI after breaks as well!) Last Saturday, we helped our son move into an off campus apartment which he will share with three of his best friends until their graduation next May. The years at RPI have gone by very fast indeed, but they have been good ones.