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by bobbles 4107 days ago
He went to http://www.rit.edu/ but I'm not sure where that fits on your exclusivity scale
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Quite a few RIT grads have come through my employer's engineering teams. There seems to be, or have been, a program there in "network engineering" or something, which places a big emphasis on practical systems architecture and debugging. Its grads emerge full of stories about how hard it is to assemble and debug all the physical interconnects between the network switches in the server racks that you have to assemble before you graduate.

You want these people on your team.

Random side story: when I toured there when I was 18, my tour guide was severely depressed and told me not to go there. Before showing up we got pulled into a gas station and quickly left when we realized it was being robbed.

I never attended so I can't say if this is indicative or not of the school in general, but it's funny how much these first impressions completely changed my decision to apply!

I loved RIT, although a lot of people there really succumb to Seasonal Affective Disorder thanks to all the snow and cold.

The RIT I know is a bit more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHcIQgQnkU