<p>Interesting. This has certainly been done before in special circumstances, but I don’t think it was in the student info packet before this year.</p>
<p>I may have misspoke. I remember reading t somewhere, but at a glance through the new student pack, I could not find it. This could be because it wasn’t in a place that I was looking, or I just missed it, or it was in a different place, but I know I definitely read it. Come to think of it, it may have been stated in the housing contract or one of the related forms.</p>
<p>You don’t want to opt out of rotation. I’m not sure you really have the choice (except for extenuating circumstances), but even if you do, it would possibly be the worst choice you could possibly make for many many many reasons.</p>
<p>I agree with jdhutchin. I think in an ideal system there would be a well-developed place for people who didn’t want to participate in the house system, but that place certainly does not exist now.</p>
<p>Cal Tech seems to be a place where the anti-social conjugate with one another, discussing how to hack their ex girlfriends (if they ever had one) myspace/facebook page. I’ve visited a few times and talked to current junior and senior students about their outlook and life at the school. Learning how to use utorrent and illegally download windows ultimate edition paired with Friday night world of warcraft all-nighters seems to be the “party atmosphere” of CalTech. Go to Berkeley, bring a fifth of bacardi in your banana boat sun-screen bottle to the DIVISION I(o ya) football games and enjoy. simple as that. but goodluck to all those out there trying to ruin the next four years of their life.</p>
<p>^ummm no. but lol</p>
<p>Because clearly no one at Berkeley plays World of Warcraft or knows how to use computers.</p>
<p>haha, how could these stereotypical nerds hack their ex-girlfriends’ computers when they obviously wouldn’t be able to get girlfriends at all? :P</p>
<p>hi guys, i’m a current caltech student and i want to challenge some of the absurd, fallacious claims in the above post by calbear627</p>
<p>first off, hacking my ex girlfriend’s facebook is stupid because i already have access to her account. you see, my ex girlfriend is on my computer, i programmed her in cs156 but she dumped me when she saw my enormous zits and buckteeth when i coded up the webcam software for her to finally see me</p>
<p>second, i have never, ever spent an all-nighter on world of warcraft, my mom would kill me if i stayed up all night. i usually raid until around 2 or 3 am and then i have to go to bed</p>
<p>third, i am not antisocial, i have like 400 facebook friends and like at least 20 of them are girls. i even talked to a girl in person once but then i had to stop because my asthma was acting up</p>
<p>fourth, no way would i download illegal windows operating systems. right now my desktop only boots to gentoo, oberon, and netbsd, i don’t download those sissy m$ operating systems</p>
<p>geez dude, get it right</p>
<p>hahahahahahaha you are still awesome quello</p>
<p>wow…you guys really know how to impress dont you? It seems your priorities are on a tangent somewhere off into…who gives a #$*@? You were recruited because of- top sat’s, top ap’s, top grades(hey just like me!!) -maybe one of you invented a bionic arm or perhaps discovered a certain polymer? And they coaxed you into paying hmmm 3x what I do at Cal!? What were you guys on? Yes I say guys, because we all know there are no girls at CT, if you even want to call them that. When Berkeley has nation/world wide prestige and recognition while paying a fraction of the price. All the while living in one of the best cities in the world?<br>
Quello-You fit the montage perfect. I can tell exactly where your gonna be in 4-6 years. In a lab, with interns, naturally, to make you feel “special”, doing something you hate. Unless you really love doing derivatives, atmospheric equation proofs, game theory models etc.<br>
Lizard-Stand up for yourself for once…all you are is a follower, very characteristic of a CT student.</p>
<p>I’m having trouble telling if you’re just a ■■■■■ or you were rejected in some way.</p>
<p>he could be a lot of things :D</p>
<p>haha, sweet, I’m a follower. I’ve never been described that way, it’s a nice change. (By the way, I’m out of state, so Berkeley is roughly the same price for me as Caltech…)</p>
<p>Hey can you tell me more about myself? I’ve learned so much already!</p>
<p>man you’re taking things so personally,
the kid’s probably just messing around</p>
<p>(then again:
the internet is srs business)</p>
<p>haha ya man chill out… Guess thats just another aspect of the social life at tech. But hey man good for you, your doing what you want when you want how you want…enjoy your life of social isolation with people who have the same interests as you, WoW, hacking, sitting in your rooms, going out to play scrabble at the frat house?(do you even have a greek system?) ha and dont forget porn! a must have at tech considering wild ravers and parties, or lack there of :)</p>
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<p>we have a house system, it’s better 
…and what’s wrong with scrabble?! that game is awesome</p>
<p>but wow is a crappy waste of time
i only played it for three days,
but the characters are ugly
and there’s too much clicking of the mouse.</p>
<p>lol @ calbear627 he’s probably ****ed off at Caltech because Cal got hit pretty hard by the California state budget cuts. But honestly calbear, trying to vent your stress by making fun of Caltech at the “you guys should come to caltech” thread in the caltech section on cc might not be a good idea. If you love your school so much, I suggest you get off the computer, work at local McDonalds, and donate all of your salaries to the school.
Problem Solved</p>
<p>to cal tech ppl :</p>
<p>How intense is CalTech at Chemical engineering grad school ?</p>
<p>That depends a lot on who your advisor is.</p>