Who did you meet for the first time in college?

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<p>People who were part of royalty in other countries
People whose dad’s either were CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, invented things such as Bagel Bites, or were super rich lawyers
The clothing brands Vineyard Vines and Lily Pulitzer (two of the most popular brands at my school)
A girl who ended up on the LPGA tour after graduation
People who went to boarding school
People who did hard drugs (coke especially, painkillers, etc.)
People who did non-weed soft drugs (shrooms, etc.)
Mostly I just had never met THAT many rich kids or THAT many people from the northeast. I grew up upper middle class and was definitely in the bottom rung at this school
I had seen kids driving nice cars before as well, but never went to a school where the most common car brands were Mercedes and BMW (no joke). Test driving my friends Cadillac XLR (while he borrowed my truck) was fun!</p>

<p>This was at a small LAC with a graduating class of <500.</p>

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<p>Coke addicts (in my sorority) </p>

<p>People who were genuinely intelligent and dedicated to their fields. </p>

<p>Jewish people! </p>

<p>…really really Jewish people. </p>

<p>Nigerians! </p>

<p>Totally socially inept guys. </p>

<p>Guys shorter than me…by a good few inches (5’6 guys).</p>

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<p>I don’t think I had ever met a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant before I went to college. Everybody I knew growing up in New York was Jewish or Irish/Italian/German Catholic or Hispanic or African-American. WASPs were like unicorns to me. (Obviously they existed in Manhattan, but we hardly traveled in the same circles.)</p>

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<p>That’s interesting. I know lots of white Northern Europeans who are non-Catholic who grew up in NY (including family members); but now that I think of it, none of them could afford to live in Manhattan, so they wouldn’t have traveled in your same circles. (not all white Anglo Saxon protestants fit whatever the stereotype is.) I hate the term WASP.</p>

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<p>I went to a commuter college 15 minutes from home and was shocked to meet people that were poorer than I was (I grew up in a housing project).</p>

<p>In college, I met one of Son of Sam’s victims.</p>

<p>I met cops and firefighters who were going to night school to better themselves and they helped better me.</p>

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<p>Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, you didn’t have to be wealthy (or anything close to it) to live in Manhattan. It just so happened that most people in every school I went to were Jewish or Catholic.</p>

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<p>Donna -</p>

<p>I grew up in NYC and never met a Protestant until I was in college, but it wasn’t at college or through college so I didn’t mention it.</p>