<p>You couldn't pay me enough to live in Texas.</p>
<p>"Suicides publicized on TV actually have a higher chance of prompting people of similar age of the suicider of performing the same feat. It's dangerous to publicize teenage suicides in the media, especially if the circumstances and rationale of the suicide are very similar to those of other mentally-ill teens.</p>
<p>Remember the tylenol poisoning scare? It was prompted by copycat behavior of people inserting poisonous pills into then unprotected drug bottles all over the nation after the initial reported case. Now we have to frustrate ourselves with plastic wrap that prevent some people (mainly me) from opening drugs."</p>
<p>Ever heard of Darwin Awards?</p>
<p>About Rutgers: It's so true that it gets no respect...I love it so much because my mom and aunt went there, and that it's a huge campus. </p>
<p>But Camden....OMGZZZZZZ. Stop it. We have some of the worst areas here, we can deal. I live near Newark (basically 7 miles) and I'm not crying. Just walk fast and you'll live. It's URBAN...what would you expect?</p>
<p>And as for the last place you'd find me:</p>
<p>1) Anywhere in the middle of the nation. No OCEAN for hours either way? No place for me. I'd feel trapped.
2) Anywhere omgcatholicchristianbaptistlutheranomg. I'd feel weird, as I am Pagan.
3) Anywhere in the middle of NOWHERE.</p>
<p>As for colleges:</p>
<p>Any Ivy. I can't deal with the workload, even if I were qualified for it, nor the people who go there. No offense guys. </p>
<p>So that means Harvard. I wouldn't mind Stanford, though. Or Berkeley. NO PRINCETON. Ugh. And any weird named school. I wouldn't be able to say it with pride. No dinky state schools. (Yeah, Rutgers, whatever.) </p>
<p>I've run out of steam. Eh.</p>
<p>The only states I'd ever consider going to school in: Illinois (home-state), Mich, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio. Possibly New York. Location is huge for me. And even though I really want to go to an Urban school, I'd consider rural Iowa over Atlanta or something. I don't have a huge desire to leave the midwest. At all. It's home.</p>
<p>Anyway, the school I really, really don't want to go to: University of Illinois-Urbana. There are far too many students and a vast amount of them are kids from the Chicago 'burbs, where I'm from. I don't want to go to a college thateveryone from my high school goes to.</p>
<p>I don't think I could go anywhere in the middle of the country either, It would be depressing knowing you were miles and miles from the ocean...</p>
<p>Miles and miles away from hurricanes and shark attacks....</p>
<p>Haha, I've never been a fan of the ocean. =P Lake Michigan is enough water for me.</p>
<p>I can see how it'd be missed, though. =)</p>
<p>I'll never go to U of C (hometown uni). They have a crap arts program (all the funding goes to science/tech) and I'd die if I went there because every single day would be a reminder of how much better I could have done. Oh, and most of the kids from my hs who can't get into anywhere better go there. </p>
<p>Also, you would have to pay me a lot of money to go to Ontario. Yes U of T is good, but the culture is nothing compared to Vancouver (UBC) or Montreal (McGill). I've visited all three cities and Toronto is way down there on my list. Montreal is beautiful (I could practice my french!), and Vancouver has the ocean and the best weather (comparatively).</p>
<p>The old MIT suicide thing again.</p>
<p>To 95% confidence, there is no difference between the MIT undergraduate suicide rate and the national rate for a population that fits MIT's characteristics (18-22, 60% male, engineering majors). Statistically speaking (which is the only way one can accurately speak about these things), MIT does not have a higher suicide rate than would be expected given its student population.</p>
<p>Temple. It was my safety and I went on a tour. </p>
<p>Then I cried. I was disappointed beyond belief.</p>
<p>University of the South - Sewanee. I was checkin' it out and admiring their exquisite mountains. Then I found out it was very, very...conservative and Christian. I mean, if you want that in a school, go for it. I'd be interested in a class like Comparative Religion or something. Not Theology. <em>squeals</em></p>
<p>Drexel. The way it's right near UPenn makes it all the worse, imo. The buildings are fugly structures of Plexiglas and metal. Unattractive, though that shouldn't be the deciding factor, obviously. But I would be living there. I get a weird vibe when I walk through it. Just like people can give me weird vibes. <em>shudder</em></p>
<p>MIT. Also hideous and gave me a weird vibe. This girl doesn't want math/science to be a part of her career and is staying the hell away from Calculus.</p>
<p>Harvard. Just doesn't appeal to me. I want to do graduate at Yale or Columbia. Ivies are...nice. But this one has been clinging to its number one US NEWS spot like a sailor clings to a piece of driftwood. The people I know who visited found few redeeming qualities about the place. My cousin got in and chose UPenn. :)</p>
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<p>Hey, it could be worse. At Wheaton (MA), they call themselves "Wheaties."</p>
<p>mmm frosted wheaties or no?</p>
<p>As for the suicide rate at Berkeley--well we know the math/econ/physics building (known as Evans) to be the place where people jump off--but there are no bars on there and as for recent years I believe there have been no suicides (I've never heard that Berkeley had one of the highest suicide rates).</p>
<p>As for MIT having the highest--I believe it. As I mentioned in another post, my high school classmate, who is going to another tech school-- Cal-tech-- is suffering from a mental breakdown and is on meds and psychiatric help. Their workload, the pressures, maybe familial pressure, competition, studying math and science constantly without any "fun"--I bet you many people would be depressed. (Shudder..I would hate to go to a tech school.)</p>
<p>Actually, they were pretty frosty when I visited...</p>
<p>Smith: Smithies
Bates: Batesies
Middlebury: Midd Kids
Trinity: Trinnies/Trin-Trins</p>
<p>Augustana (IL) is Auggie. But I don't think that's a very popular school here lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, either Augustana or Augsburg has "augie.edu" or something like that for their URL. Weirdos. :p</p>
<p>Brown - Brunonians, but I prefer Brownies. Doubt it will catch on though.</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill (my safety...), respected but I still loathe it. Also, any service academy, and anywhere more than 25 miles from a city.</p>
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Let that be a lesson to all people applying to Temple without actually seeing it!</p>
<p>I've seen Drexel. How much worse?</p>
<p>Drexel=decent Temple=G-H-E-T-T-O...I grew up in East Oakland and wouldn't even go to Temple!</p>
<p>I think this is the first time I've heard someone hate on the W&M campus, lol</p>
<p>and uvajoe, it's not that bad, C's are your friend!</p>
<p>the last place I would go, is anywhere that costs $30-40,000 a year when I live in VA and can get an equal education for a fraction of that.</p>