What do most people become after graduating Caltech?

Joe_Caltech_04
Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:41:54 +0000

“As you could see from our resident alum’s reaction to this nonsense (see Not quite old’s post above at #45), Techers like Harvey Mudd just fine and don’t have any bone to pick with you.”

As a less-recent-but-still-pretty-recent alum, I’ll say that any “bone” I have with Harvey Mudd comes exclusively from the conduct of their posters on the College Confidential forum (well, the laudatory semi-facts on their Wikipedia entry didn’t help my impression either). Any way you slice it, it just isn’t very impressive–particularly to a scientist or engineer–to “bend the truth” to brag.

While I was actually at Caltech I don’t think I ever thought of Harvey Mudd at all either way. It was just a non-factor in any part of my life, so why would I? But Ben is right–from what I’ve read here, Caltech must be a pretty common topic of conversation over there. And that’s kind of sad.