Segregation at Caltech??!

<p>In this post, I read quite worrisome information that Asians might occupy one floor of a house while Caucasians might occupy another floor of the house, thus leading to segregation socially.</p>

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Post: #13</p>

<p>To what extent is this true? Furthermore, how do Caucasians treat Asians at Caltech and vice versa?</p>

<p>First, you are referring to a seven-year-old post. Second, students at Tech choose where they want to live through the rotation process. They choose their rooms based on room pick drawings and if they don’t have a single room, choose their roommates. People will socialize with whomever they choose. If a certain group chooses to socialize together, it is by choice, not “segregation”.</p>

<p>Good Grief!! Nothing could be further from reality. There is a sense of “we’re all in this together, and we love being nerds!” at Caltech. There is NO sense of segregation based on race - the only segregation I’ve seen is based on major. The bio types hang with bio types, physics majors hang with physic majors, CSers hang with CSers, and we all love to poke fun at the grad students. But as far as paying attention to race - we have much more important things to do…</p>

<p>Interesting, that was my post when I first arrived in my house. I’ve graduated a few years, so I have no idea if the dynamic I noted is still true. At the time, there was racial segregation for the issues I explained (mainly the alcohol culture). It’s possibly not the same since there was a new dean of students my senior year who clamped down on underage drinking. As a note, my closest friend from college is not Asian (I’m Asian myself) and also was in a different house.</p>

<p>By the way, my views are extreme on the conservative side. Before I showed up to Tech, I expected there to be minimal alcohol consumption so I was pretty shocked to see people playing beer pong. Now that I’ve lived in the real world a few years, I feel that I may have been overly critical… I would revise most of my posts if I could today.</p>

<p>To the OP: Feel free to PM me if you want specifics.</p>