Imperial College, happy 100th birthday!
So... what started as an effort by Prince Albert to create a centre of excellence that would rival MIT made it to its first 100 years.
Founded in 1907 by merging many institutes in the (very very expensive) area of South Kensington, it has been standing well. Thus far it has accumulated 20 Nobel prizes, the Times cited this year as the 9th best school overall and 4th in engineering world-wide, 1st in engineering in Europe and 10th in science world-wide. (Thanks Infrared)
Today, well... rather yesterday, the celebration has began with some free cake, a 1907-style-and-price lunch and finally a nice presentation by its Rector.
So, apparently Imperial College London is great! So they say... To be fair it's great to be part of this institution. Many amazing people were here and many more will come. I am sure I will miss it when and if I left...
6 comments:
great people like me!!!!
you forgot to mention that it is 10th for science.
NONETHELESS, according to my experience there is a law which states that:
The number of greeks/cypriots studying/working in an institute, the worst it is.
So according to this law prince albert managed to create an MIT wannabe place for rich, stupid greeks/cypriots who were rejected from better places.
It is equivalent to City University and LSE.
are you calling me stupid?
if you are in imperial and you are either a greek or a cypriot, it is very likely you are.
Kosta, why is your friend calling both of us stupid?
Because he probably knows something we don't. ;)
unless you live something, you can not comment about it....
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