<p>Re: Republicans at elites... when I got to MIT, I was as right-wing as they come, and I didn't feel particularly out of place as a student. </p>
<p>It was a wake-up call to come to a very diverse school -- I went from basically an all-white, all-Republican small town in Ohio to being the only white kid on my floor at MIT. I did have a bit of culture shock at first ("Wait, you mean not everybody's Christian? Or Republican?"), but I never felt like anybody disparaged my point of view.</p>