Your top ten engineering colleges are very important in choosing a school. Number one pick is Massachusetts Inst. Of Technology.
Then you have Stanford, Univ. Of California at Berkeley, California Institute of Tech. , Univ.
Of Illinois, Georgia Institute, University of Michigan, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and University of Texas at Austin.
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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.