<p>Serj (and other Caltech students) - What kind of person do you think would be happy at Caltech? One of the things that I most like (from what I’ve seen) about Caltech is the small community. I don’t think that I’d mind the almost 24/7 math and science either and I love a challenging course load. Of course this kind of sounds like you as a pre-frosh too based on your earlier post… </p>
<p>So, for prefroshies like myself who are trying to decide between Caltech and a school with a very different student body, how are we supposed to know if we’d actually be happy there? Visiting the campus doesn’t seem to ever give an accurate picture of what life at Caltech is really like (people tell you that Caltech is the happiest place on Earth or that they regret ever going and are on their way to jump off the Millikan library roof right now and end their misery.) I don’t really want to pay $45 grand/year to be miserable, especially when I have other good (but not as good) and much less expensive colleges to choose from.</p>