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[quote=Anonymous]I went to Caltech, but it was 20 years ago so I'm not sure how much the culture has changed.

Back then, at least, yes it was a place for super nerdy kids who wanted to do research. But they also embraced a "work hard play hard" approach to life. Some kids party a lot, some are really active in extracurriculars, some spend all of their free time in the lab.

It's a really small school, so the pool of people who have similar interests is going to be very small.  Most personality types are represented (at least they were 20 years ago). The trick is to find the small set of kids who do crazy research during the week and then go backpacking on the weekend (or party, or play sports, or whatever your jam is) - they exist, but there will only be a few of them because you only have 1000 students to begin with. There were plenty of parties on campus, interhouse sports, clubs, etc. But all of the people doing them will also be super nerdy and spend a lot of their time studying. [/quote]

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