Since so many of you registered to post your EA Admissions Results...

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>This forum's gotten a lot more action over the past couple of days thanks to the massive influx of people who wish to inform us of their acceptances, deferrals, or denials. </p>

<p>Frankly, I'm not all that interested in your SAT scores, but I'd love to hear more about your personalities / lives. So, tell me something interesting about yourself. I'd also be happy to answer questions about myself / my time as a student here.</p>

<p>I'll start:</p>

<p>I'm a junior in Electrical Engineering here at Caltech. My favorite movie is Gladiator, my favorite color is green, and my favorite book is "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. I work in a really awesome nanofabrication lab for an even more awesome professor, Axel Scherer. </p>

<p>Since stories are so much more fun than lists, I will tell a story about myself.</p>

<p>When I was a little kid, I was a troublemaker. Hell, I still am. Anyway, when my mom would put me to bed at night, she'd tuck me in, turn out the lights, and leave. Of course, almost immediately I'd get out of bed and turn the light back on and start playing, even though I knew I wasn't supposed to. My mom would come back in, punish me, and put me back to bed. I was stubborn enough that this went on for an hour or so every night for a couple of weeks. </p>

<p>At this point, my mom was feeling pretty bad about having to punish me so much, so she went to ask one of her friends for advice. "What if he's just afraid of the dark?" her friend said. My mom was horrified of the possibility that she was punishing me for being afraid of the dark, so she asked her friend, "How do I find out?" "Just take out the light bulb. If he's afraid of the dark and the light doesn't work, he'll freak out." her friend replied.</p>

<p>That night, my mom put her friend's plan to the test. She put me to bed as usual and stood outside my room, ear pressed to the door. Very shortly she heard the pitter-patter of little feet, and her pulse quickened with anticipation of the screaming to come. I flicked the light switch two or three times, softly proclaimed "bwoken", and went back to bed.</p>

<p>Yeah, I was a stubborn bastard. I'd like to think that I only retain the positive aspect of this personality trait, but that's just not the truth :P</p>

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<p>Hi, I usually just lurk around, but I figure I might as well post this time. </p>

<p>I'm a Senior in a relatively nice high school in the Silicon Valley. My favorite movies include Pan's Labyrinth and the Dark Knight. My favorite books are Wizard by Marc J. Seifer and Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. </p>

<p>Uhh...besides the usual Science Bowl studying, I spend my extra time reading, and animating on flash. I'm fairly quiet in the public, but can get really loud with my friends. Especially when we start to geek out over things (LHC day!). </p>

<p>Yeah, I don't know anything else to say...</p>

<p>So lizzardfire, like what time to people usually sleep at Caltech? 'Cause I'm sure it's really intense there, and was just wondering how much time you need to take off of your sleep time since a lot of people also seem to be involved in sports and other time eaters like that.</p>

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<p>I think I put Brave New World on my Caltech app. I should probably get around to reading the sequel.</p>

<p>When I visited Caltech, the guide's bed was near the ceiling. Are most of the rooms like that?</p>

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<p>tsilver: Bradbury is hella legit. As for sleep schedule, it varies widely from person to person. I'd say the average is still somewhere between 6-8. I personally get like 8+ average, but I also place a priority on sleep. I don't really think it's a problem for most people because after a while you realize that if you don't sleep you can't really do anything... so you sleep. The problem comes in not having time for other things, like going out to LA or cleaning your room haha.</p>

<p>TCBH: The sequel isn't really a sequel, it's a non-fiction work where Huxley basically talks about what's happened in the time since he wrote the first book (he basically says that the world is turning into "Brave New World" faster than expected). It's interesting, but not nearly as fun as the original IMO. </p>

<p>As for the rooms, those are called lofts, and they are in the North Houses. Not every room in the North House has a loft, but most of them do. That being said the North Houses only make up 3 out of 8 houses, and the other 5 (South Houses + Avery) do not have lofts (minus the one or two that students have unofficially built). I love the lofts so much, it really frees up space in the room.<br>
Who was your tour guide? Do you remember? (I am a tour guide as well)</p>

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<p>I don't remember the guide's name, but he is a sophomore this year, and he's from Thousand Oaks.</p>

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<p>I might recognize his name if I saw it again. I just remembered he's on the cross country team (if that helps :)).</p>

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<p>I would guess that would be Anton.</p>

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<p>Oh, right, I forgot he was a guide. Anton's in my house, he's a great guy :)</p>

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<p>Haha, I know someone who likes green waaaaaay more :P</p>

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<p>Yeah, me too. We've got a girl in my house (not sure if that is who you are referring to) who has everything green--electronics, clothes, even a green streak in her hair :)</p>

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<p>Woah I'm late. </p>

<p>Anyways, thanks for replying. It's great to know that people there get enough sleep. :)</p>

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Yeah, me too. We've got a girl in my house (not sure if that is who you are referring to) who has everything green--electronics, clothes, even a green streak in her hair

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<p>You two are referring to the same person.</p>

<p>Now let's see how long it takes to figure out who each other are!</p>

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<p>It's gotta be one of the asian girl frosh... beyond that no clue</p>

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<p>I'm a frosh adn will do one of the Chem-related options probably (ChemE, Chem, or Geochem, (maybe even Geo)) </p>

<p>My favorite movie is Children of Men </p>

<p>Favorite book: if I must choose just one then A Short History of Nearly Everything</p>

<p>Before I came to Tech I had an unofficial mission to watch at least oen episode of every series on channels my tv recieved. I also watched every movie that comes on, the only one I could not finish was Marie Antoinette. The other three people I was watching it with gave up around a half hour in, one stuck around for about an hour. After 100 minutes or so, I was well in and could probably have finished but decided that life was too short. </p>

<p>I like to play RTS games, even more so since I've come to Caltech, and have started to watch TV programs again. They were put on haitus to build Interhouse. (btw any other BSG fans out there?). Otherwise, I like to draw out different organic reaction mechanisms in my spare time, (which I would say is the pinnacle of my geekiness), among other things. Otherwise, I spend a lot of time doing random stuff with friends.</p>

<p>I'm somewhat curious as to whether the other Techer's will guess who I am. I had a theory as to who lizzardfire is, but that fell apart when the green hair came up. As for xDpockyDx and dLO I'm still stumped.</p>

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<p>The green hair shouldn't relate to my identity; I just said that I knew a frosh with green hair, not that I had green hair. </p>

<p>You met me during rotation. Your initials are TK.</p>

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<p>Ah I thought you said you were in the same house as the girl, which didn't make sense since at first I thought you were someone in Page. atm you initials have made matters worse, I'm tired though (about to go to sleep) so I might remember by morning, though I dont remember all the names from rotation.</p>

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<p>Google is so useful for linking usernames to real names...</p>

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<p>Wow you guys don't sound stalkerish at all. Haha. :] </p>

<p>Anyways, in my opinion, who dLO is was oretty easy to figure out. ;D Haha. </p>

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<p>Thankfully google searching my screenname doesn't turn up my real name... except on this website. Oops.</p>

<p>edit: heeeeey I'm no stalker :|. At least I don't creepily hide in chengy's room and do weird things...</p>

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<p>At least I don't even more creepily hide in people's closets and take weird pictures with their cameras...</p>