<p>And CMU men say, “Sex kills. Come to Carnegie Mellon, and live forever!”</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Funny- that one I hadn’t heard.</p>
<p>But perhaps it’s because the “odd goods” are too busy with their school work to take time for the sex…and this has nothing to do with the young ladies at CMU!</p>
<p>In a few months- I’ll be more neutral on this topic…since my son will be at CMU…and I think he is absolutely adorable ! (Mother’s Bias bias bias…)… </p>
<p>SMILE Wink</p>
<p>GO buy someone flowers- it’s valentine’s day in 4 hours…!!</p>
<p>I am so lucky my mom doesn’t post here</p>
<p>The thing that wasn’t touted a lot when we went to the CMU open-house was their ability to place kids in summer internships. Was very pleasantly surprised at the number of companies that were recruiting, and how good the positions were - both the nature of the work and the pay.</p>
<p>PS - re the lack of fun at CMU frats, DS’s frat got de-certed at the end of last summer; this leads me to believe they weren’t spending Friday evenings trying to solve Navier-Stokes equations and such.</p>
<p>“I am so lucky my mom doesn’t post here”</p>
<p>How do you know for sure that she doesn’t…?</p>
<p>well she can’t use a computer so I’m pretty sure she does not post here…</p>
<p>Mr. Steelersngators…</p>
<p>your mom is smarter than you are…she only whips out the computer when you aren’t around…you should be paranoid…</p>
<p>And why would you be upset if your mom posted here…
it’s confidential…(you’ll never know who my adorable son is…but if he’s your roommate, I’ll introduce myself as I already figured out who you are…it was very obvious) (Maybe I’ll change my handle to StalkerMOM – rofl)</p>
<p>You should be upset if she joined the FB group-- but here’s it’s pretty harmless…and lots of parents are very helpful here with all sorts of advice. </p>
<p>Be nice to your mom- she pays your bills and loves you unconditionally…</p>
<p>Did you buy her flowers!!! It is after all your last year in her home…(even if you hail from Pittsburgh suburbs)</p>
<p>ROFL I only posted "I am so lucky my mom doesn’t post here " to see what the funny response would be.</p>
<p>“you’ll never know who my adorable son is…but if he’s your roommate, I’ll introduce myself as I already figured out who you are…it was very obvious”</p>
<p>It should be because easy because the Tepper Facebook Group only has three members :D</p>
<p>I always hope my son never checks this site. Or my husband, or basically almost anyone I know because they could identify me. So I do try not to humiliate any of them, even anonymously because you never know for sure. Then again, I’m sure my very existence as a parent is embarrassing. But, as mom2012 said, “she pays your bills and loves you unconditionally…”. Not many women in your life are gonna do that! </p>
<p>I haven’t read many truly embarrassing things written by parent or kids on the CMU site, but the rest of CC is a little different.</p>
<p>The thing is this site is not really confidential. People who don’t know you could easily find out who you are just by looking at posts.</p>
<p>I agree with busdriver that it would not be too difficult to figure out some of the more frequent posters, especially within the college sites. I feel these college sites are for the benefit of the students (parents can go have fun in the Parent Cafe) and have tried to limit myself to information that hasn’t already been posted, or to correct misunderstandings. There have been occasions where giving some background on DS might make a more interesting post but would be too identifiable, so have erred on the side of caution. DS is not on here but most likely some of his classmates are. When he was a freshman I ended up PM’ing with another parent - better that way than exchanging public posts. And I’m not sure how many students want a parent’s opinion on social life - since we only know what we’re told anyway!</p>
<p>i took a tour of cmu this summer. im not sure what it was but everything i saw on the tour made me love it more. its probably my top choice.</p>
<p>are they the interesting nerds or the ones that don’t know social behavior?</p>
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<li><p>The nerds without social behavior retreat into their dorms and spend 24 hours a day on CounterStrike, and you never see them again. (Don’t get me wrong, I love CS, but in moderation, damnit.) Then the ones who are left are the cool nerds. </p></li>
<li><p>I think the most embarrassing thing I’ve seen parents do on CC is refer to their children as “Dear Son” and “Dear Daughter.” When did everyone get so darling and charming and lovely?</p></li>
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<p>If you’re going to CMU looking for girls, then forget about it, go to another school. If you’re going to CMU looking for an education, then you will get a good one there. I went there in the early 90s, so times may have changed. The girls I met there weren’t from CMU, but from other schools in the area that came to CMU to party with the guys.</p>
<p>Hah, guys seem to complain a bit about the lack of girls but I hear from girls that the guys aren’t exactly prince charmings either. More like “ah, the ratio evens out when most of the guys are terribly socially awkward” is what I hear from engineering visits. </p>
<p>I really like this school, visited during a COD weekend and loved the theater club being right next to the robotics club. The food was really good, I got a lot for the cards they gave us and I didn’t even use all the money over the 3 days (mexican food sucks, but well, anywhere up north it does). Nice rooms, I stayed in the biggest dorm room I’d ever seen. This girl had a single room that was as big as my room! Though she and the others in that dorm were likely an exception it was still the nicest dorm I’d seen and she was only a sophomore. I’ll probably try to get her place if I can. Everyone was awfully friendly, I liked the guys just laying around a fence in tents at night and this one teacher just started talking to a friend and I in the middle of the grass at night about the bridge with all the lights. I don’t think he knew we were just visiting prospective students but he was really nice. Everyone treated us well, there was little of that “our school is elite” except in this joking way by a computer science presentation, and it was very funny. All the students seem a bit geeky in some way but it’s good to see some guy trying to build a robot that plays drums because that’s what I’d like to do.</p>
<p>From what I got, the parties aren’t frat parties but more major or club specific. Like, the NSBE party or the Drama Party or the Indian Club Party (<– what I went to). It’s all very welcoming and I keep hearing this craziness about orientation. It seems that if you want to have fun you easily can but if you want to study there’s a group doing that as well.</p>
<p>For me, it’s between CMU and RPI depending on which gives more money. I also really liked RPI and it seems like they’d give the most money. Still, if I get lucky with this scholarship I might go to CMU and major in mechE or comp&elecE. They really encouraged women there it seems, the presenter for engineering said that women from their school have some of the highest starting salaries and get some of the most internships. And she was a woman herself and was really nice, she was some kind of a teacher or administrator but I really wouldn’t mind working with those kind of people.</p>
<p>I thought I’d feel like a minority but no, not at all really. Everyone was very sweet but, if you’re mexican, you will be easily mistaken for Indian or Middle Eastern of some kind. Not a lot of mexicans there from what I can tell, but it doesn’t actually effect much.</p>
<p>lucky2010: “mexican food sucks”</p>
<p>YES. Finally someone else agrees with me that Si Senor is the spawn of Satan. I also despise their Mexican food, but luckily Chipotle is down the street and that’s not quite as unpalatable. </p>
<p>My boyfriend is a graduate student at CMU, and he went to RPI for his undergrad degree (EMaC and Game Design double). His only complaints was that RPI’s area sucks-- Troy, NY is essentially a ghetto where you have to carry a knife to go to the grocery store. RPI also has a significantly lower amount of women than CMU does, and it showed on campus. He was born and raised here in Pittsburgh, though, so he’s probably a little biased towards his hometown. But RPI is very generous with aid and grants, unlike CMU, so if it comes down to a money issue, that’s something to consider.</p>
<p>Remember, if you get a better financial aid offer from RPI bring it to the attention of CMU. CMU does, or at least has in the past has tried to be competitive with offers from their peer institutions. RPI is a peer.</p>
<p>Seconding what bosssr said. I was admitted to both RPI and CMU, with RPI offering me a significantly better financial aid package. Called CMU about it, faxed the offer over, and a few days later CMU had matched it.</p>
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<p>That’s changed since you went there. I don’t remember anyone coming from Pitt or Duquesne unless it was Carnival weekend.</p>
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<p>I’ve seen girls from other schools come during orientation also…occasionally for frat parties too (but isn’t the norm, so I do agree with you there)</p>
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<p>the thing is…there are less girls than guys - and the girls can also be socially awkward! they probably mean that not as many guys “hang out” with their particular social group, thus that group might be 50/50 (since guys are probably slightly more prone to be socially “awkward” as you put it). There are a lot of guys who would like to have more girls, even if they were socially awkward ;D my advice to guys is to try to meet people both on and off campus (meaning go to parties at pitt, duquesne, even point park! lol…maybe during carnival hit up nearby Carlow, etc). Also if you do meet a nice girl outside of the CMU sphere it can actually make life easier, ie you can separate your work from your relationship more, get some space every once in a while, etc. This may not seem important as a freshman but by senior year it will make sense (if it doesn’t already from HS experiences, lol). Of course this doesn’t matter if you’re a “player” but then again if you are maybe CMU isn’t the best school :D</p>