 We are Boilermakers, black and gold, founded in 1869 on agriculture and mechanics. Today, home to over 200 majors, more than 36,000 students and thousands of research projects each year. We are a nationally ranked and globally recognized school, smack dab in the Midwest, drawing students from more than 125 different countries, and creating a network of more than 450,000 alumni around the globe. We didn't choose Purdue because we thought it would be easy. We chose Purdue because we knew it was going to be hard. We are inventors and dreamers. We are problem solvers and doers. We plant our feet in the earth as we reach all the way to the moon. We believe that trains can be mascots. Fountain should be run through and that bell towers were meant to be built one brick higher, our Boilermakers.