Is Caltech a boring place to be at?

GreatestEver
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:26:20 +0000

You sound like a bad fit for caltech. I won’t sugar coat it - Caltech is likely to have the ugliest student body in the country. Caltech is a pretty boring place to be for many reasons. Most of the time people are working, there aren’t many people at tech, the people that are free usually do boring stuff, and a result of all of that is when you finally find a break in your study packed day there isn’t much to do. The life of a techer is monotonous, unchanging, and full of hard work. For those who are truly passionate and are willing to give up a normal fun care free college life for the life of a techer this does not apply. But in my experience a very large portion of techers are not like this. They like math and science but do not love it - perhaps due to constantly getting shat on with a never ending stream of work.

This is all true. Realize that techers who post mostly on this site are only a few who are motivated to post because they are a good “fit” for caltech. This creates bias and an inherent skew to what is presented about Caltech.

For example:
"Are there parties? Yes
Sexy chicks? Sure
Fun people? Of course

“I’ve had some friends who go to Caltech and say it’s a pretty antisocial place”

All the parties, sexy chicks and cool people won’t be going around searching for you. If you want to have fun, you’ll have to take it upon yourself to go out, find those things, and socialize. I don’t know who your friends are and thus don’t want to make any judgments, but in general, people that sit in their rooms playing WoW all day certainly may see Caltech as a pretty antisocial place. "

No just no. There are parties but when the ratio is as messed up as it is, and the girls are as ugly as they are (more so than the guys) the caltech party experience is not even remotely close to parties at any other school. I can think of some attractive girls at tech but out of all of em I would maybe call less than like 5 of them max sexy. Not even really. That compounded with the fact that there will be 100 guys hitting on them awkwardly makes girls develop a ***** complex because suddenly decent girls are hot **** and it goes to their head. Tech is soo small that if you do something with a girl, every person will know soon. There is no sense of anonymity to promote a hookup culture which hurts the sex life at tech even more. Also Caltech is objectively an antisocial place, from the perspective of the kid who plays wow all the time to the most social people. Most of the people I know who are actually normal at tech had better social lives in highschool.

All in all, Tech is a ****ed up place socially, if you have even a slight doubt of attending dont come. You don’t come to tech for the social life (people who are antisocial and “losers” in higschool flock to caltech and proclaim the place to be very sociable, but anyone of the few normal ppl at tech would disagree). You come to tech for the education and enviroment, which I think no other place can match.