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The Importance of a Mechanical Engineering Degree at Mit

The iLab is a de facto military Institution even though it's located on campus and grants graduate degrees Almost everything happening within these walls is sponsored by the army, navy or air force. We're like a mini-loss alamos right here in Cambridge Huh if you had wanted to work on weapons you would have gone into the militaryYou say as much in more polite terms But if I apply to this program, it's because I want to work on spaceflight NASA is a civilian agency is everything here classified no not necessarily but The thing is an inertial guidance system is flexible You can use it in a Polaris missile or you can do the next dunderburg. that is 1959 and you

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