<p>“Oh! That’s in the middle of nowhere!”</p>
<p>“What’s in Merced?”</p>
<p>It’s kind of true, but there are plenty of things to do and the question gets aggravating.</p>
<p>UDub Seattle - I’m from San Diego so I often get the “oh, I hope you LOVE a lot of rain because it rains so much ‘up there’” response from people who have never been out of the state before and really have no idea about anything other than what they hear on tv or from others. gets annoying.</p>
<p>I haven’t even gone to my new school yet and I get this:</p>
<p>“OMG! But its so cold there!”
“You’re gonna freeze!”
“<em>skeptically</em> Do you know its cold?”
Cold references ad nauseam</p>
<p>“Wow, you’re really going far away from home.”</p>
<p>I feel like saying, “But I thought it was always hot in michigan!?”
People say this like I really don’t know its cold or far…</p>
<p>“The weather there is terrible!”</p>
<p>While true, it gets annoying after a few dozen people say the exact same thing.</p>
<p>Kansas State:</p>
<p>“Jayhawks . . . great basketball team!” (It’s the Wildcats, and they advanced further in the NCAA tournament than KU did last season).</p>
<p>“It’s full of nerds.”
“Everyone there is a studyholic.”
“Oh, you go there, you must be a genius!”</p>
<p>^ I’ve been told many times “We watch basketball, so we know them!” or “They have a good basketball team!”</p>
<p>From my old college: anyone who says it’s “just a community college” and claims it’s worth nothing. It was actually a very good 2-year school.</p>
<p>From my new college…I don’t think I’ve heard anything too annoying about it. Probably just my mom saying “Why can’t you go to [insert local university that I have zero interest in]??” :D</p>
<p>SDSU:</p>
<p>“Oh thats the school where half the girls have STD right?”</p>
<p>“Do you guys have a major in beer pong and partying?”</p>
<p>I go to NYU and I hate how everyone assumes you’re rich if you go here. It bothers me is because I’m poor and my family is so stressed out about money because we have financial problems. Just because someone goes to an expensive college in an expensive city doesn’t make them rich. Not that I’m dirt-poor, but I feel like it compared to some of my affluent classmates who never seem to worry about how they’re gonna pay next semester’s tuition or anything :/</p>
<p>@PlattsburghLoser: I have never heard anyone say that - if anything, I have heard people say NYU is for people who have “The money for Columbia, but not the brains to get in.” Well I hope that makes you feel a bit better, haha 
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<p>It’s a joke, but it bothers me how people say that sort of thing for private college students who don’t go to ivies. Sometimes you have to turn down an elite school for a scholarship at a less-elite school because you can’t afford your #1 choice college - many people can’t.</p>
<p>I’m with mflevity here…</p>
<p>“Minnesota? Isn’t it cold there?” (No, it’s tropical. What do you think?)
Alternately, “Minnesota? Why on EARTH would you go to Minnesota?”</p>
<p>My track coach told everyone at the Senior Banquet that I was going to “Clarkson…no, Castleton!” He’s pretty old though so I didn’t bother to correct him. :)</p>
<p>UCBerkeley:
“It’s full of hippies!” That was a few decades ago.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a freshman at NYU in the fall and I hate it when people ask me where I’m going because it’s usually awkward. Some people also go ahead and assume my family is loaded even though that is far from the truth.</p>
<p>My least favorite reaction:</p>
<p>Senior English teacher: “Where will you be going?”
Me: “NYU.”
SET: “That’s where all the snobs go.”</p>
<p>No, he was not joking and it ****ed me off a bit.</p>
<p>University of Washington:</p>
<p>“Do you wear ponchos?”
“I hear it rains all the time…are there covers so you can get to your next class without getting wet?”
“Have you ever been depressed? I mean, look at the rain.”</p>
<p>Indiana University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>“Indiana! That’s far away! Wait, how do you only get there in two hours?”</p>
<p>“Party school. I thought you were better than that.”</p>
<p>“I went to the University of Indiana, too!”</p>
<p>^not to be a jerk but there’s no university of indiana. it’s indiana university - location.</p>
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<p>[Indiana</a> University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.iup.edu/]Indiana”>http://www.iup.edu/)</p>
<p>It is in Indiana, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Chipmoney: I’m merely pointing out that it seems highly suspect that someone would mispronounce their alma matter by saying “I went to the University of Indiana, too!”</p>
<p>for ppl who are annoyed at ppl asking where your college is… i feel like thats the only response ppl can give if they don’t know about your college, and not everyone will know your college 
(unless it’s harvard…)</p>
<p>rice:
it’s like the food. HAHA
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<p>UCLA</p>
<p>“why would you want to go there? the students are all blond Californian surfer dudes”</p>
<p>“damn you’re pretty smart man!”</p>
<p>“I bet its pretty *****ing sick out there!”</p>
<p>“wow thats pretty far away!”</p>
<p>The first one is obviously false. The second and third are kinda true, but they’re ridiculously exaggerated. The last one is true, but I kinda figured it out a long time ago…don’t see why they have to state the obvious</p>
<p>And then there are a few people who say</p>
<p>“UCLA? where is that?”</p>
<p>The location is in the ****<em>ing name dumb</em>sses</p>
<p>Macaleter. I can relate to the other two Minnesota cats, especially the two points below. And for some reason everyone I know from Michigan is EXTREMELY animated on the second point, shockingly so. Is there some kind of rivalry I don’t know about?</p>
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<p>I also get comments on how far away it is and how I’ll only be coming home for Christmas and summer. And a few people who know about its political leanings have made “comrade” jokes…</p>