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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2981723" data-attributes="member: 1515">"Sound British"?  I thought you were British?  Or, is it all just an act? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />My college experience was, well, very different from the Caltech experience.  I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a school that is regularly ranked highly on lists of "party schools" (Playboy gave it the #1 spot last year).  The "ratio" there was pretty close to 1:1 25 years ago, and might be even more strongly female now.  The student population was around 45,000.  And, while it's certainly a good school, the university, as a whole, doesn't have a reputation as a "grinder" school (though the Engineering school, as a subset of the total, is probably closer to Caltech, both in "ratio" and "grinderness").And, through my time there (4 years of undergrad, 2 years getting my Master's), I had 3 serious girlfriends, and a fair number of dates when I didn't have serious girlfriends.I guess the point is that a bigger, more diverse campus is probably going to yield a better social life, even for a nerdy gamer.  On the other hand, a lot probably also depends on how serious you are about your studies, and how much studying your chosen major requires.</blockquote>