<p>I fail to see why school spirit is particularly relevant. I love it here, but I prefer to demonstrate that by enjoying my time here rather than paying for things I don’t want or need (sports tickets, merchandise, etc.).</p>
<p>HAHA thanks KevRus, just spreading around the Cal pride. </p>
<p>Boise State? Ew. </p>
<p>MilkTea11: It seems that you’re still talking about research opportunities, class sizes, and practicality. I was discussing something more intangible: school pride, the college experience, and memories that you’ll never forget. </p>
<p>I just think that the opportunities for these things are greater at Cal, and they’re much more valuable compared to a very marginal practical advantage (especially engineering at Cal vs Caltech). I mean, do you really want to be someone who studies all day in his room and only talks about physics? Or do you want to be in a stadium filled with 80,000-90,000 people cheering/screaming your heads off for your home team? Who would ever forget an experience like that? Or maybe you’re at a crazy frat party drinking way too much and puking your guts out. College is for making mistakes too, and I guarantee you’ll never forget that night either.</p>
<p>That’s just my opinion/personality though. Different strokes for different folks I guess.</p>
<p>Edit: @jonnosferatu
Because your school spirit will carry with you for the rest of your life, and you’ll proudly yell out “Go Bears” when you see people with Cal shirts walking around at Disneyland (I saw about 5 of them the other day). I just don’t think college is something that ends on graduation, it shouldn’t be so practical.</p>
<p>@handlebars i definitely understand your point of thinking. in fact, i’m excited to go to berkeley for many of the same reasons- school pride, amazing sports, and the unity that brings people together when they are screaming the school cheers at the top of their lungs. i totally understand that, i do think these are very valuable experiences and i care for them (why i’m stoked for attending cal), but i do know of some people who wouldn’t mind their college experience without it. but then, if i was constantly suffering from intense competition and could never find an internship/what not, that would really suck too. i’m not saying that is what will happen, i’m just putting it to an extreme</p>
<p>Well what I was saying earlier is that if you were able to make it into Caltech then you’re probably smarter than the average Cal student and you should be able to do just fine.
But yeah, I will concede that some people just have different personalities.</p>
<p>Anyways, we’ve strayed quite a bit from the original topic lol. Yay for smart class of 2014 cal kids?</p>
<p>lol this thread has gotten so off topic.</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to many places because I knew where I wanted to go and where I could probably get into. I was rejected from Stanford (early action), but got into UCLA, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>I can’t wait to go to a Stanford vs. Berkeley football game and donate blood on “get the red out” drives lol.</p>
<p>But yeah, getting back to topic, at CalSO I met so many smart and fun kids there so I guess the rumors are probably true lol.</p>
<p>Btw handlebars, dissing on BSU just isn’t cool. I’ll admit their undergraduate academic programs are meh compared to top UC schools, but it’s arguably the Berkeley of Idaho public universities (especially in engineering) AND come on, their football team is all they got so dissing on that is like dissing on a paraplegic kid’s amazing ability to pitch baseball. It’s just not right lol.</p>
<p>Actually to be honest I don’t really care if you diss BSU or the broncos, it’s just fun (and possibly annoying to others) to play the “Idaho card”. GO BEARS!</p>
<p>I just don’t like how Boise State is so tricky with their football plays lol. That statue of liberty stuff… play some REAL football ahahha</p>
<p>^lol that may be true but on a completely unrelated note, but they do have a blue turf in their stadium and although green is normally my favorite color, that blue turf is pretty cool.</p>
<p>PS: So handlebars what were your feelings when that OSU guy punched the BSU player after the game?</p>
<p>dudee the blue field screws with people’s eyes. because opposing teams aren’t used to it and bsu wears blue sometimes. not fair!</p>
<p>hahha legarrette blount? (from OU, oregon university, not OSU) honestly i thought it wasn’t that bad, it was just a small love tap. he was just angry in the moment and that dumb bsu player was just taunting him. i might’ve done the same thing. and he definitely redeemed himself after. better than people like jeremiah masoli who keep making mistakes.</p>
<p>sorry this was totally off topic again haha</p>
<p>^lol you know it would be so weird if we randomly met at Berkeley and got into a football argument, but yeah we strayed from topic I apologize (Bronco’s rule <em>cough cough</em>).</p>
<p>But let me reiterate and slightly modify the title of this blog “Yes I am effing (don’t feel comfortable spelling the actual word) excited about going to Berkeley OP”</p>
<p>^oh darn this is the wrong post this isn’t the one with the title that has the world “effing” in it, wooops, sorry OP.</p>
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<p>It surely is a fantastic school, but the drop out rate of Caltech is high. I would really go to Berkeley than Caltech. Maybe for postgrad I can consider attending Caltech. But definitely not for undergrad.</p>
<p>from what i have heard, Caltech is a really cooperative school. either way, one will have to struggle for academics (ie getting hold of complex material, etc) even if you are exceptionally smart. and at the end, it is your decision whether you want to drop or not. plus, getting accepted into caltech means that you are pretty smart.</p>
<p>…okay back to topic. where else have you guys gotten into?</p>
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<p>I strongly suspect that if you compare Caltech students to Berkeley engineering and natural science majors, an even higher percentage of the latter students ‘drop out’ of those majors. The difference is that many of those students will remain at Berkeley while switching to easier majors - although not always because of the engineering major trap, where some engineering students earn such low grades that they’re trapped in the COE, as no other college wants to take them. At Caltech, if you perform poorly, there are no easy majors to escape to, as even if you major in Literature, you still have to complete the difficult set of technical Institute Requirements, so you may find that you have to drop out of Caltech entirely.</p>
<p>Just wanted to mention something more about the sports/pride thing. I was watching universal sports today and they showed the US National swim championships in Irvine this week. </p>
<p>I watched Nathan Adrian (2008 Olympic gold medalist, 2009 world champion, NCAA champion, and senior at Cal) win the freestyle sprint events and be labeled as the undisputed king of United States sprinting, beating people like Ryan Lochte and Jason Lezak. All while wearing the classic “Cal” logo on his swim cap.</p>
<p>And then I watched Tom Shields swim (2010 NCAA champion in the butterfly as a FRESHMAN which is just unheard of), get 5th place in the US, swimming against all these professionals like Phelps. He too was wearing his Cal cap. And even Cal graduates like David Russell (5th in backstroke) wore their Cal caps. </p>
<p>Watching these guys swim made me excited and proud to be a Cal bear 
This is one of the “intangibles” that I was talking about in the Cal vs. Caltech debate. Okay, now we can get back on topic.</p>
<p>Handlebars is a neat song. I can ride my bike with no handlebars too lol. Oh and Sakky in Bhasa Malay is an informal way to say sarcastic and saki I think is Japanese rice mine. Sigh I should have picked a cool username…</p>
<p>Wine*</p>
<p>Oh shoot I should have just edited instead of a new post…</p>
<p>so how did you come up with your name, Diivio?</p>
<p>yeah love the flobots. but can you guide a missile by satellite? keep a beat with no metronome? haha
I think Diivio is some part of his name…</p>