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My high school is more than three times bigger than Caltech (population wise), so definitely not a possibility.</p>
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An administrator from my high school found out that I got into MIT and asked, “Is that in Pasadena?”. Uh…</p>
<p>^ haha, yeah. I had teachers going, “Ooh, congrats, MIT! … where is that located?”</p>
<p>I had to expand the acronym for them =/</p>
<p>Oh, I live in Michigan, where we have the Michigan Technology University up in the UP- Michigan Tech, as we down in the mitten call it. Whenever I tell people that I’m going to MIT, though, people seem to think that Michigan Tech has now changed its colloquial name, now using our state abbreviation and a T. </p>
<p>I now just tell people that “I’m going to MIT. In Boston.”</p>
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I BLAME YOU! Everyone here (in California) thinks Michigan. </p>
<p>Other responses include:
“Why are you going to a tech school? Aren’t you smart?”
“Like ITT Tech?”
<em>blank stare</em> “Umm, cool.”</p>
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Not my part of California. Everyone up here understands that it’s Massachusetts. haha, that reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Abu says, “I went to Caltech: Calcutta Institute of Technology.”</p>
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How does that make sense? Aren’t tech school people smart?</p>
<p>Other responses:
“MIT? So are you going to go to Las Vegas to count cards?”
“MIT? So you’re an engineer?”
“MIT? That was in Good Will Hunting!”</p>
<p>Them: “What’s MIT?”
Me: “It’s next to Hahvahd.”
Them: “AH! Hahvahd!”</p>
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<p>Whatever, you’re in Berkeley =P. Most people here have heard of Caltech, so I say it’s their nemesis. Then they get it? Maybe?</p>
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Go wiki tech school. It’s short for technical school, a two-year school for welding or cooking or the like.</p>
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Oh I get it. I’m used to calling them vocational or professional schools. My high school sort of has the opposite thing. We used to have a branch called the Berkeley Alternative High School, which was for the “trouble kids” that the normal high school couldn’t handle anymore. It’s even on a totally different piece of land (10 blocks away). Last year, the district gave them some computers and changed the name to Berkeley Technology Academy (B-tech). People who hadn’t known about the history of the school immediately thought that B-tech was for geniuses, but everyone else knew who it was really for.</p>