<p>My house sucks. After going to a few house meetings I realized the upperclassmen there were just annoying, and started hanging out mainly with the frosh in my alley, and with people in other houses. The people I hang out with do study a lot (I think this is a common theme at Caltech), but mostly on nights when problem sets are due. And they’re surprisingly normal. They seem to like manga a lot, and aren’t nerdy at all. I don’t think they’re very typical of most people in the house – none of us build interhouse or go to house meetings.</p>
<p>(Ironically, I got into my first choice. Rotation really isn’t a good way to pick a house. You only get to meet a few people every night, and whether you like a house or not usually depends more on how social you were feeling that night or what events the house had planned for Rotation than on how nice the people are. Actually, at the end of the week all the houses kinda felt the same. But now I wish I’d picked my second house first.)</p>