The Music Thread

[O Really]

The youtube gods were kind tonight.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7QgsixRWNw

They need to turn up Kate's mic a bit like it is on the actual video. IMNVHO her voice makes that song.

[supesalemgr2]

"Shiny Happy People" would have been lame as a hockey team name, but not bad for the town itself. Put up a sign: "Welcome to Athens, home of a hundred thousand Shiny Happy People and some grouches"

Dem college town/county, which makes me feel better about all of the winning the Bulldogs have done lately.

"Welcome to Athens, home of a hundred thousand Shiny Happy People and some dull Republican grouches"

As A UGA grad I can confirm Athens has been drifting left for quite some time.

[neoplacebo]

Is Georgia Tech still a haven for redneck dipshits?

[O Really]

That's the most complimentary thing I've ever heard from Supes.

[Vrede too]

Is Georgia Tech still a haven for redneck dipshits?

It's UGA in Athens - more Dem than I knew. Georgia Tech is in downtown Atlanta and has a rep for health and science geeks AFAIK. Maybe some of the other GA schools, minus the HBCUs, are redneck dipshits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... rgia_(USG)


Introducing Clawdius

[neoplacebo]

Is Georgia Tech still a haven for redneck dipshits?

It's UGA in Athens - more Dem than I knew. Georgia Tech is in downtown Atlanta and has a rep for health and science geeks AFAIK. Maybe some of the other GA schools, minus the HBCUs, are redneck dipshits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... rgia_(USG)


Introducing Clawdius

Among many of the engineers I've worked with over the years, GA Tech has always been ridiculed as a lesser prestige school. That was my rationale for my post. I myself never attended it. Didn't attend MIT, either.

[Vrede too]

Among many of the engineers I've worked with over the years, GA Tech has always been ridiculed as a lesser prestige school. That was my rationale for my post. I myself never attended it. Didn't attend MIT, either.

Ah. I know more about computers there, my brother's field, than I do engineering and Idk much about its redneckiness.

Rankings

In 2021 U.S. News & World Report named Georgia Tech 3rd worldwide for both its Bachelor's in Analytics and Master of Science in Business Analytics degree programs. Also in the 2021 Times Higher Education subject rankings, Georgia Tech ranked 12th for engineering and 13th for computer science in the world.

Tech's undergraduate engineering program was ranked 4th in the United States and its graduate engineering program ranked 4th by U.S. News & World Report for 2025. Tech's graduate engineering program rankings are aerospace (2nd), biomedical/bioengineering (2nd), chemical (3rd), civil (1st), computer (4th), electrical (4th), environmental (3rd), industrial (1st), materials (3rd), mechanical (2nd), and nuclear (9th). Tech's undergraduate computer science program ranked tied for 7th and its graduate computer science program ranked tied for 7th. Other graduate computer science program rankings are artificial intelligence (5th), theory (9th), systems (4th), and programming language (14th).

Also for 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech 13th in the United States for most innovative university.

[O Really]

Maybe some of neoplacebo's engineer colleagues had a bit of regional bias?

[neoplacebo]

Maybe some of neoplacebo's engineer colleagues had a bit of regional bias?

Yeah, I googled "does ga tech have a bad reputation as an engineering school? abd found that nationally, it's consistently rated in the top ten. So all the disparaging comments I've heard over the years are apparently more of a comical denigration than any actual deficiency. The commenters that I can remember were from UT, UNC, and NCSU. Probably just tribal hubris on their part.

[neoplacebo]

Among many of the engineers I've worked with over the years, GA Tech has always been ridiculed as a lesser prestige school. That was my rationale for my post. I myself never attended it. Didn't attend MIT, either.

Ah. I know more about computers there, my brother's field, than I do engineering and Idk much about its redneckiness.

Rankings

In 2021 U.S. News & World Report named Georgia Tech 3rd worldwide for both its Bachelor's in Analytics and Master of Science in Business Analytics degree programs. Also in the 2021 Times Higher Education subject rankings, Georgia Tech ranked 12th for engineering and 13th for computer science in the world.

Tech's undergraduate engineering program was ranked 4th in the United States and its graduate engineering program ranked 4th by U.S. News & World Report for 2025. Tech's graduate engineering program rankings are aerospace (2nd), biomedical/bioengineering (2nd), chemical (3rd), civil (1st), computer (4th), electrical (4th), environmental (3rd), industrial (1st), materials (3rd), mechanical (2nd), and nuclear (9th). Tech's undergraduate computer science program ranked tied for 7th and its graduate computer science program ranked tied for 7th. Other graduate computer science program rankings are artificial intelligence (5th), theory (9th), systems (4th), and programming language (14th).

Also for 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Tech 13th in the United States for most innovative university.

Apparently I was just repeating biased opinions from others. O Really set me straight. And you.

[Vrede too]

Yeah, I googled "does ga tech have a bad reputation as an engineering school? abd found that nationally, it's consistently rated in the top ten. So all the disparaging comments I've heard over the years are apparently more of a comical denigration than any actual deficiency. The commenters that I can remember were from UT, UNC, and NCSU. Probably just tribal hubris on their part.

Rankings

... Georgia Tech ranked 12th for engineering and 13th for computer science in the world.

Apparently I was just repeating biased opinions from others. O Really set me straight. And you.

US
Georgia Institute of Technology #4 in Best Engineering Schools
North Carolina State University #27 in Best Engineering Schools (tie)
University of Tennessee--Knoxville #52 in Best Engineering Schools (tie)
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill #64 in Best Engineering Schools (tie)

My brother's field, while I'm at it:
Georgia Institute of Technology #6 in Computer Science
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill #27 in Computer Science
North Carolina State University #51 in Computer Science (tie)
University of Tennessee--Knoxville #80 in Computer Science (tie)
North Carolina State University not ranked in Computer Science

Must be jealousy, as O Really says. We better hope that Georgia rednecks aren't this smart.

[neoplacebo]

I suppose it's a safe bet that MTG is not a GA Tech grad.

[Vrede too]

I suppose it's a safe bet that MTG is not a GA Tech grad.

Nor Engineering, nor any Science. "University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996."

Aside from the aside: 100 pages of The Music Thread, though we sometimes go off on tangents.

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