Cal students

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: veggz
And with regard to the OP, just be glad you don't go to Cal Tech.

Do you go to Cal Tech, veggz?

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
How come everytime I visit friends at SD or fUCLA or Davis and sit in their classes, I find their equivalent classes ridiculously easy?

How come we have to work our butts off for all our classes?

I'm seriously thinking that other schools are just a joke compared to Cal. Unfair, but I don't honestly believe my dumb friends who failed high school can tell me they got A's in Davis and tell me that they really know something when I'm spending hours doing my HW to crunch out a B only =/.

Fret not about the academic maelstrom. The Cal degree is at the extreme TOP among folks that matter (grad schools, top jobs). I've worked in Admission Offices at Ivy grad schools as a student and the Cal brownie cookie is on par with MIT and Cal Tech....then it goes down markedly from there.

I'm actually really surprised the immense respect I've received from the degree (i.e. grad school schollies @ Ivies etc, really difficult to obtain HIGH paying jobs). My grades were OK at Cal and I was frustrated by my inadequate Frosh/Soph years...especially since I was a H.S. Valedictorian. End the end, it all worked out and have been given jobs over other fluffy top Ivy applicants. I guess the proof is in the pudding....

 

[Fingolfin269]

Am I the only one that finds it sad that the OP actually sits in his friends classes at other schools just to see how hard they are? Give me your address so I can send you a a beer or something.