<p>Dauntless, I can’t wait for the club fair again this year, the food they had there was fantastic last year.</p>
<p>Also, to foo182, I’m currently a grad student here at Caltech, and I didn’t get in in undergrad. I did great at my undergrad school (Carnegie Mellon), but I think had I gone here, I would have definitely transferred out. Caltech has a very particular view on how classes should be taught and what sort of material is important, and it seems to pervade every class here. They don’t seem to be so much about what you can do with what you’ve learned, but making you go WOW THIS IS REALLY HARD THIS IS SO COOL I CAN DO IT. For me, an experimentalist engineer/scientist, it’s a very difficult atmosphere to deal with, and I know whenever I have to deal with classes, I always get frustrated with their style.</p>
<p>I also think it’s a little misguided to say the 12% that don’t quite make it at Caltech are idiots. Most people I know of that have difficulties at school at the caliber of Caltech don’t have trouble with the academics, it becomes more of a problem of depression and emotional issues that cause them and their grades to slide. Often they’ll do fantastic for the first half of a semester, but then tank when a problem outside of their academics comes up.</p>