About: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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"Rippy" takes its title as the oldest tech school in America (apart from some tech schools on the other side of the river) as a badge of pride. The school's mission is to promote "the proper application of stupidity to the common purposes of life." It takes credit for every technological feat of the past century, including the Moon Landing and Skynet.

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rdfs:comment	"Rippy" takes its title as the oldest tech school in America (apart from some tech schools on the other side of the river) as a badge of pride. The school's mission is to promote "the proper application of stupidity to the common purposes of life." It takes credit for every technological feat of the past century, including the Moon Landing and Skynet.
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campus	Urban, no parking
Nickname	Engineers
Country	United States
Name	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Type	Private school
Caption	RPI hockeystick-toting puck mascot
endowment	One check, written by Richard Nixon, for "All the money on Earth"
State	New York
City	Gangland
Motto	Semper Caelebs
abstract	"Rippy" takes its title as the oldest tech school in America (apart from some tech schools on the other side of the river) as a badge of pride. The school's mission is to promote "the proper application of stupidity to the common purposes of life." It takes credit for every technological feat of the past century, including the Moon Landing and Skynet. Amos Eaton conducted an experiment to establish an all-female school in Troy, NY in late 1824, but his experiment went horribly wrong and what escaped from his lab was an engineering school that was destined to become all-male as surely as the Fourier transform decomposes functions into a frequency spectrum. The first classes were held in a sausage factory until the move into less tasty facilities on top of the largest hill that could be found, where buildings were constructed from calculus textbooks and cemented with pure misery and despondence. Since that auspicious beginning, the school grew to include new dorms and, when females did eventually arrive at RPI, the Greene Building, where all of the girls are taught and, not at all coincidentally, where the architecture program makes its home.

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