<p>Where do they live? What are their majors? Where do they socialize? Do they live in a different universe from the greek kids? Are there geek fraternities and sororities? How are engineers perceived? How accepting is the student body to diversity of all sorts?</p>
<p>Thx</p>
<p>Should I read into no response?</p>
<p>Were my Qs inappropriate? </p>
<p>I do not know Ohio. Clue me in please.</p>
<p>Candidness is expected.</p>
<p>PS being a geek is a badge of honor in NorCal where we live.</p>
<p>They were not part of my D’s regular pre-med crowd. I can comment only based on my personal experience. Everybody was into very many things, things that were not related to science at all, like Music, Art, Languages. Cannot call them geeks despite the fact that they had to maintain very high GPA in order to be accepted into Med. School and each was accepted to multiple.
D. lived in Tappan and then Wells and then moved to College Suits in her junior year. Tappan and Wells were Honors dorms. D. was in Honors.
Another group that I am a bit familiar are in business school. Not geeks either.<br>
It has to be maybe engineering or CS???
We are from Ohio and D. is currently has many (most?) in her class from Cal. I do not think that people are that different and they got lucky with the weather in OH so far.</p>
<p>Thank you. I think there must be a little bit of everything at Miami. </p>
<p>When I say geeky, I mean not necessarily looks but just into things like science, engineering, technology, computers etc. DS is an attractive guy but shy, intense, and smart. I think he likes Miami because it seems a positive place with out-going extroverted folks who might pull him out of his shell.</p>
<p>DS was not accepted to honors 
but encouraged to apply second semester. The letter also encouraged him to contact the asst dean of academic success in the engineering school and to consider an engineering major. </p>
<p>The friendliness of all of our dealings with Miami is quite noteworthy. My slow to warm son seems to feel already a part of the community and we have yet to even visit!</p>
<p>What does “geeky” mean to an Ohioan?? I think we might have different definitions :-/</p>
<p>“Geeky” would be somebody like the ones from that show that my H. (and in fact my D. ) watch, “Big Bang…” whatever. I do not watch much of TV, not into it, but they say that this one is funny. Anyway, one with kind of narrow focus, I would say. I do not mean it in any negative way. And I do not see any reason to change your personality no matter what. Not at all, make the best out of who you are.<br>
Yes, my own D. is outgoing and a very social person who usually seeks the company of similar people. But as you pointed correctly, I bet anybody can find his “crowd” at the place like Miami U without bending his personality in any way. i would never encourage that. i always stressed to my D. to be respectful to yourself and who you are and make yourself surrounded with people that you personally feel comfortable about. I bet your S. is smart enough to do the same and he WILL FIND that Miami will be accomodating his needs. Frankly, I have never heard of anybody who was unhappy attending there.</p>
<p>Great. I appreciate your openness. I have seen the show Big Bang Theory and it is really quite funny and yes … they are all quite geeky … and loveable in my book! :)</p>
<p>As long as everyone has a good sense of humor and can laugh at themselves on occasion, that is all that matters. We are all just human!</p>
<p>Hmm, when I think about Miami, “geeky” does not really come to mind.</p>
<p>Must agree with Austro… Miami is many things, but introverted geeks do not head the list.</p>
<p>Will visit his weekend. </p>
<p>I have a geek who does not want to be surrounded by them all the time.</p>
<p>I know geeks are not the center of attention at Miami but there is an engineering school and science majors so by definition they are intense, focused, smart and maybe a bit geeky. My guess is that most of the professors would call themselves geeks. </p>
<p>So they must just fit in, quietly.</p>
<p>I am a little stunned that “geek” is a word spoken in quiet. We live in an area where the most successful of us are the geeks … wildly successful like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs or Sergey or lots of others. Geeks are who everyone admires around us.</p>
<p>What does Mami think of Bill Gates?</p>
<p>As I have mentioned, D’s crowd (primarily pre-meds) were all “science majors” but by far not “intense, focused, …and maybe a bit geeky.”, although I would say smart and very very hard working kids who loved fun and were in many things that were completely unrelated to science, and yes, when they had a bit more time (in D’s case it was senior year), they were looking forward to hit the bars over the weekends. D. was also in sorority which was one of her better experiences in college.
However, I imagine that engineering and CS kids would be closer to definition of geeky. None of D’s friends resembled the likes of lBill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs. But again, she was not a friend with the entire campus. She is still very selective while in Med. School. She mentioned many times that she has hardest times staying away from “intense” people as she is assigned working with various groups, so meeting socially diverse group is unavoidable for her now. However difficult it is, she think of it as a plus, learning to deal with different personalities while still in school is better than later in life.</p>
<p>Based upon two visits (our S will start in the fall), it would appear that the set of what passes for geeks would include CS kids but, since Miami has more LAC-type requirements for all degrees, even those would be a bit more mainstreamed than the Big Bang Theory types.</p>
<p>Yes, visiting and talking to current students in intended major(s) is crucial in decision making.</p>
<p>My daughter would classify many of her Engineering classmates as pretty geeky. She is an Engineering Management major. Also, many of the Business classmates as being pretty preppy. She does not classify herself as belonging to either category. I think you will find, though, a variation of categories within all majors, maybe some more in certain majors than others. I believe you can find your “niche”, no matter what your major is.</p>
<p>BTW, just a thought, if you are really after “geeky” crowd, did you check at all Case Western? There is a great difference between student body at Miami and CWRU according to my D. who knows it first hand.</p>
<p>Had a good laugh. While heading to usual coffee shop, a bus drove by with an enormous ad on the side for the Computer History Museum … “Learn to be GEEK” … In CA</p>
<p>My son is a geek and proud of it, having grown up in a geek heaven. Being in Oxford will be an interesting change for him. There are enough geeks around to create a community so he is happy. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by people just like him.</p>
<p>^Again, it depends on personality. My own D. (who is 23 and in Grad. school) still wants to be in a company of people like herself. She just wants to feel comfy as much as she could. However, she realized that it is beneficial to learn how to connect to a different types of personalities despite of difficult learning curve might be. She has hard time being around “intense” people (her terminology), but sometime she does not have a choice.</p>
<p>Yes grad school tends to have more intense than not. Most folks tend to have friends like themselves but I think geeks get tired of geeks for the same reason others tire of them also.</p>
<p>Sense of humor is always a good approach!
good luck to your S. I am sur he will enjoy his next 4 years without bending his personality one way or another.</p>