Prefrosh Weekend.
Apr. 24th, 2006 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenMy last Prefrosh Weekend is over. Talking about how it was our last game of Capture the Flag, it struck me that I'll be leaving this place sooner than I think, and for a few brief moments I tried to imagine never coming back here again. Never living in these dorms or hanging out in these houses. It was very jarring. I'll visit, of course, but that's hardly the same, just like with high school.
I could dwell on that a lot more right now, but let's not.
It occurred to me, talking to my prefrosh, that seniors make horrible hosts. At least in the sense that hosts are the student the prefrosh talks to the most about what Caltech is like and such. I mean, we've just finished making difficult decisions about where we're going after we graduate, and that gives us a very different perspective of Caltech. I was telling prefrosh all these things about how Caltech pushes people into grad school, even if a lot of us don't really know that that's what we want to do. On the other hand, if you do know that you want to go to grad school, Caltech is an awesome place because you get to do research with famous people who will write you recommendations. I do think that's something people should think about in choosing a college, but I can't say that I did. I'm sure prefrosh are a lot more worried about the transition from high school to college than 4 years in their future.
I think the best hosts (or people to talk to in general) are sophomores, followed by juniors, frosh, and seniors. Sophomores have been at Tech long enough to see what it's really like -- in contrast, frosh haven't even taken exams on grades yet -- but they probably still remember high school a lot better than I do. In light of those criteria, the rest of the ordering should be pretty self-explanatory.
My prefrosh this year reminded me a lot of my prefrosh last year, who ended up coming here. [Someone told me that she hates it here, but I don't get that vibe at all when I talk to her, so who knows?] Then again, I'm guessing most prefrosh can be sorted into a small number of categories. In this case, I got the outgoing, somewhat overconfident types. I played board games on Thursday night, which drew more of the quiet girls, like myself when I was a prefrosh. I won't go into the categories for guys, but, unfortunately, most of them are obnoxious in one way or another.
CTF was kind of a letdown. I knew going in that the Prefrosh Weekend game tends to suck because the prefrosh either don't understand the rules or don't follow them. [Last year, I did a lot of escorting people to jail because it let me chat with the prefrosh as we walked. But they'd always run off the moment I left them, when the rules clearly state they're supposed to count to 20.] The first game ended rather quickly when the prefrosh who grabbed our flag promptly ran out of bounds with it. The second game was considerably longer, but still ended with the other team coming to take our flag from a direction we thought was off-limits.
I guess it's midterms week now, or something. I think I may only have 1. W00t.
I could dwell on that a lot more right now, but let's not.
It occurred to me, talking to my prefrosh, that seniors make horrible hosts. At least in the sense that hosts are the student the prefrosh talks to the most about what Caltech is like and such. I mean, we've just finished making difficult decisions about where we're going after we graduate, and that gives us a very different perspective of Caltech. I was telling prefrosh all these things about how Caltech pushes people into grad school, even if a lot of us don't really know that that's what we want to do. On the other hand, if you do know that you want to go to grad school, Caltech is an awesome place because you get to do research with famous people who will write you recommendations. I do think that's something people should think about in choosing a college, but I can't say that I did. I'm sure prefrosh are a lot more worried about the transition from high school to college than 4 years in their future.
I think the best hosts (or people to talk to in general) are sophomores, followed by juniors, frosh, and seniors. Sophomores have been at Tech long enough to see what it's really like -- in contrast, frosh haven't even taken exams on grades yet -- but they probably still remember high school a lot better than I do. In light of those criteria, the rest of the ordering should be pretty self-explanatory.
My prefrosh this year reminded me a lot of my prefrosh last year, who ended up coming here. [Someone told me that she hates it here, but I don't get that vibe at all when I talk to her, so who knows?] Then again, I'm guessing most prefrosh can be sorted into a small number of categories. In this case, I got the outgoing, somewhat overconfident types. I played board games on Thursday night, which drew more of the quiet girls, like myself when I was a prefrosh. I won't go into the categories for guys, but, unfortunately, most of them are obnoxious in one way or another.
CTF was kind of a letdown. I knew going in that the Prefrosh Weekend game tends to suck because the prefrosh either don't understand the rules or don't follow them. [Last year, I did a lot of escorting people to jail because it let me chat with the prefrosh as we walked. But they'd always run off the moment I left them, when the rules clearly state they're supposed to count to 20.] The first game ended rather quickly when the prefrosh who grabbed our flag promptly ran out of bounds with it. The second game was considerably longer, but still ended with the other team coming to take our flag from a direction we thought was off-limits.
I guess it's midterms week now, or something. I think I may only have 1. W00t.
