When I was deciding on colleges, I went looking for blogs. Statistics, wikipedia pages, and university websites are good in their own right–but I knew that I wanted to spend my next four (or more…) years somewhere that fit me inside and out. Not having the money to visit all my college choices (except the closeby UCSB and Caltech) I turned to the next best thing: blogs by students expressing their fun and frustrations in university life.
After all those weeks of indecision, I visited Caltech, I loved it, and I chose it. And then I came back home and waited eagerly through the longest summer ever (my, does Caltech start late!) for it to begin. Biding my time, I looked for websites, stories, livejournals–anything that would give me more details about where I was going.
Very little. And a resounding nothing from female students, which is perhaps understandable since they make up only about 30% of the school’s population.
Call me crazy, but I saw this as a challenge.
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This blog is for prospective students out there looking, like I did, for a little more intimate view of Caltech; and especially for women looking into this school and wanting to hear a woman’s perspective.
As of this writing, I don’t know if Caltech is the perfect fit for me. In fact, as of this writing, school hasn’t even started yet. I have no idea if I’ll only be able to update once a month, if I’ll have good things to say, if I’ll pass math, or if I’ll drop out and end up a wandering minstrel. That life has always beckoned…
In any case, it’s much more fun for the story to unfold for all of us as I go along. Plus, for entirely egocentric reasons, I do so like keeping diaries of various times in my life.
Without further ado, then (as this is entirely too much ado already), here are my Caltech diaries.
