<p>California Institute of Technology...</p>
<p>This is one of those instances where I really feel like saying "idiot." Since this info is even available on the top of the page....</p>
<p>"College Discussion > College Admissions and Search > Colleges and Universities > CC Top Universities > California Institute of Technology"</p>
<p>And you also had to click on the "California Institute of Technology" tab to get to this forum...</p>
<p>Of course, Kamikazewave, there is the possibility that Platero was joking (hence the haha). </p>
<p>Maybe we should keep the insults to ourselves?</p>
<p>I don't think so. He seemed perfectly serious in his question, surprisingly enough. </p>
<p>And actually, I feel I have a right to call him an idiot. You'll notice that I usually don't call people names or talk about people, but I reserve the right to call someone an idiot.</p>
<p>Platero is female, if I recall correctly; Platero is applying to Caltech, and is quite an intelligent young person. Platero was making a joke, and being so mean for no particular reason makes Kamikazewave look very very silly (to use a polite term). But that is also something Kamikazewave clearly reserves the right to do.</p>
<p>Enough nonsense, pretty please?</p>
<p>Ben, I don't think she was joking. And yeah, I reviewed all of her posts to make sure, even though it seems obvious to me from the context that she wasn't making a joke.</p>
<p>And I wasn't being mean. I was pointing out the absurdity of asking a question like that. And yes, I suppose you might consider myself looking like a fool if I "didn't get the joke," but since I don't really think it was a joke, or consider it to even resemble a joke, I posted what I posted.</p>
<p>Once again, I have a right to call someone an idiot when they're acting the fool. Doesn't matter how smart or intellectual they are. If I did something stupid like that I would expect to get called an idiot as well, and I do. But this isn't one of those times.</p>
<p>So yeah, Ben, there you go, me looking very very silly, little baby, cut with the mommy lecturing a grade schooler crap. The sarcasm isn't that good, since all I did was post a comment expressing my candid feelings and explained how all the info she was looking for was at her fingertips the whole time, and by inference, if it was a joke it was a bad one, and I deserve props for pointing that out. I believe I was doing her a favor.</p>
<p>You do deserve props, but not for what you think you deserve them for. You've demonstrated quite nicely (see post #25) how ridiculous you can end up looking when you hurl insults over trivialities.</p>
<p>Anyway, my personality is very much like yours about these things, and it's taken me many years of effort to learn to control the impulse to insult. If you wander over to the MIT forum, you'll learn that I don't always succeed ;-). So no hard feelings on my part, at least.</p>
<p>Ben, you give yourself too little credit. The people I generally see you want to insult are typically those who definitely deserve it (trolls!). </p>
<p>As for you, Kamikazewave, you can reserve rights all day long. That being said, you won't make many friends with rights like those ;)</p>
<p>(P.S.-- what if you both you and Platero end up at Tech and she is smarter than you?? hehehe)</p>
<p>Oh gosh.....I was so, so, so, so totally joking...I sure didn't expect the honor that the last eight posts would all be about mine, some of which demonstrate such unique logic as to make me speechless...and I'm hesitating whether or not to feel sad and hurt when called an idiot by this person...
oh well, maybe that was a bad joke. Sorry that my bad joke caused so much confusion and ..um, anger.</p>
<p>Thanks to Ben and lizzardfire for saying nice things. It's people like you who let me see hope in the human race.</p>
<p>"It's people like you who let me see hope in the human race."</p>
<p>In order to save the human race, Ben and lizzardfire must have babies together. Kamikaze will try to stop them...</p>
<p>Who cares about the people who don't know CalTech? Since I've known about CalTech, I have always assumed there wasn't a college in the US that was more difficult to get into or that had such a concentration of brains. And I don't even really know the stats -- maybe MIT is on a par. But all others pale. And who really cares if not too many people know this. The ones that count know.</p>
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<p>Very true.</p>
<p>or...</p>
<p>The ones that know count =)</p>
<p>but yeah, i agree with BedHead</p>
<p>Lizzard I find it easy to make friends, so I excercise my rights liberally ;). </p>
<p>And what if Platero and I both ended up at Tech and she's smarter than me? So what? It'll just make me feel happier when I get to call her an idiot and remind her of her bad jokes....I honestly don't mind being around people smarter than I am, since I've already encountered two of those in my life, unlike many at Tech who've probably felt like the genius their entire lives until they reach Cali.</p>
<p>"Kamikaze will try to stop them..."</p>
<p>Hehe...I'd probably be the guy saying "what the hell you doing? Get back to the problem sets and stop daydreaming."</p>
<p>And oh yeah, it'll be people like me who'll save the world. I'm like the BAT maaaannn.</p>
<p>It would make you happy to call someone an idiot for making a bad joke??</p>
<p>Woah woah woah...that exchange was so bizarre and so unnecessary. Why such hostility?....I don't understand, Kamikaze. I really don't. </p>
<p>Actually, I don't know about everyone else, but before Caltech I'd encountered so many people who are wayyyy smarter than I am. You must be really smart. Kudos.</p>
<p>Actually...I don't include the time I spent at TIP, and by people I mean my peer group. But if you're including people who are without doubt smarter than me rather than just around the same level (which there's many) or slightly smarter in some areas, then yeah only two people. And Zoogies, I don't need the sarcasm. Everyone meets different types of people in life depending on their environment and how they live their life.</p>
<p>And Lizzy...that's a stupid question. You understood what I meant. Rewording it is just wordplay.</p>
<p>"I honestly don't mind being around people smarter than I am"</p>
<p>I honestly don't mind being an idiot by Kamikazewave's definition, if this will shut him up on this meaningless topic. Yes, completely meaningless.</p>
<p>So back to Caltech. I knew about Caltech from my dad, and my dad knew about Caltech and the fact that it's a crazily elite school like 4 or 5 years ago, and he was (and is now, and has lived all his life) in China...so I'm pretty surprised Caltech is not so well-known, I've always pictured it and MIT as the two brightest stars of brainiless, but I just didn't know or feel that Caltech is not seen by a lot of people...I mean, my classmates know Caltech and they're like "that's the hardest school to get in in the nation", and some of them aren't even seniors...anyway I think Caltech is awesome AND famous!
although I did thought it was a tech school, hehe. But that's the problem of my inability to understand the language of modern English.</p>
<p>Platero...this meaningless topic was started by your meaningful joke.</p>
<p>I don't need to shut up when I'm being attacked for what I said. why don't you learn some good jokes then come back and tell me to shut up.</p>
<p>Why doesn't everyone just take a chill pill and let this thread die? Do you realize how much time has been wasted over a misfired joke? And how pointless (if not outright cruel) it is to so harshly criticize the precise wording of a non-native English speaker?</p>
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<p>Post #38:
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I don't need to shut up when I'm being attacked for what I said. why don't you learn some good jokes then come back and tell me to shut up.
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<p>Priceless.</p>