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University of Southern California

2011-03-06T21:55:29Z

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'''The University of Southern California''' is a school located on [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].

USC is to [[UCLA]] what [[NYU]] is to [[Columbia]], made even worse by the fact that UCLA is a public school, and is located on Westwood, near Beverly Hills and Hollywood, while USC is in South Central, the L.A. equivalent of [[The Bronx]], multiplied per six.

Those 2 schools share a fierce rivalry and like to make jokes at the expense of each other.
USC is mostly filled with [[WASP]] kids who got rejected from [[UCLA]] and [[Stanford]], or out-of-state students that got better financial aid packages.

One would wonder why would anyone choose USC, but maybe it's because Randy's Donuts (The Best donuts on the West coast) is near USC campus.

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Los Angeles

2011-03-06T20:26:06Z

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'''Los Angeles''' is the largest city on the west coast, and the second largest city in the United States (after [[New York City]]). Appropriately enough, LA is the opposite to NYC in practically every way: the weather is the same year-round, public transportation is virtually non-existent by comparison, and few buildings rise above two stories tall. Like New York, however, it is very polluted and has a big immigrant population, legal or otherwise.

Much of Los Angeles is covered by ghettos and ruled by gangs. One Angelo equated Los Angeles to "[[the Bronx]], multiplied by six." However, the area also boasts some of the most affluent neighborhoods/suburban tax havens in the world, including Beverly Hills and Newport Beach.

It has 2 main Universities, [[UCLA]], and The [[University of Southern California]] (USC), which share a extreme rivalry. L.A. also has [[Caltech]], but located on it's outskirts, because it engages in unnecesarily dangerous experiments.

It is rare to find someone at Columbia who is from Los Angeles who did not go to the tony [[Harvard-Westlake]] school.

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Boston University

2011-03-06T20:25:36Z

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'''Boston University''' is, shockingly, a university in [[Boston]]. It's larger and more cosmopolitan than its suburban rival, [[Boston College]], and sort of plays Columbia to BC's [[Princeton]].

Boston University is to [[Harvard]] what [[New York University]] is to [[Columbia]], but Boston U are socio-economically diverse and actually learn something, unlike those at NYU.

Their mascot is the Boston terrier, which is kind of just adorable for a giant school with barely any campus and lots of mammoth, brutalist architecture.

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New York University

2011-03-06T20:24:25Z

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[[Image:Nyustudent.jpg|thumb|A Columbia [[anthropology]] major prepares for downtown fieldwork by disguising herself in the native dress of NYU students]]

'''New York University''' ('''NYU''') is a school of "higher education" located in [[w:Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]]. You will make tasteless jokes about NYU students for about a semester before you realize it makes you look insecure. Then you will try to join their fun scene downtown, to no avail. NYU students will claim that you will be secretly jealous that the cast of Gossip Girl decided to go to NYU instead of Columbia for the show's third season. However, it's very important to note that Gossip Girl is fictional. It's even more important to note that Gossip Girl's characters eventually hate NYU and transfer to Columbia for season 4.

==Evolution of NYU students==

===Admissions===
Most naive NYU applicants do not realize that NYU does NOT have needs-blind admissions. As a result, all commoners, however intelligent, are rejected in favor of wealthy applicants whose parents make ridiculous amounts of money in professions that exploit people.

===Freshman year===
[[Image:MaryKate.jpg|thumb|Famous NYU student Mary-Kate Olsen getting her beauty sleep]]

NYU students enter college thrilled. They have a dorm room in some of the coolest, most expensive real estate in the country, and have landed in what was, until 2009, [http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/4/7/nyuNamedTopDreamSchool America's "#1 dream school"]. The kids from [[New Jersey|Jersey]] can finally live out their suburban fantasy of hitting St. Mark's Place every night! That, plus there are copious dining hall choices, until they discover Pommes Frites on 2nd Ave, which eliminates the need for other foods. Academically, NYU freshmen might still be confused at this point: should they major in studio art or graphic design? By the end of the year almost all male heterosexuality has vanished from the freshman class.

===Sophomore year===

[[Image:Nyutrolley.jpg|thumb|Actual NYU trolley thing]]

Exile: NYU begins preparing students for real life early by introducing the commute. Nearly all NYU sophomores are packed off to housing in [[Chinatown]] and the [[Financial District]], taking cutesy little trollies back and forth to "campus"...usually someplace blocks and blocks from class. That wasn't in the brochure! Entire iPods of the latest, greatest indie groups are recycled while the trollies get snarled in traffic, and without access to Pitchfork to get updates on which one-named bands to listen to next, NYU students become passive-aggressive. They begin dreaming of taking out their rage on a keyboard, preferably in A-flat minor (or A minor because he/she hasn't grasped accidentals yet...and never will). This is a period of great trials.

===Junior year===

Just before NYU students consider turning in their skinny jeans and Converses for transfer recommendations, the university smiles upon them. They are placed in hermetically sealed, climate-controlled outposts across the Third World. Study abroad NYU style was clearly designed for students of the Stern School of Business - practice for a life of returning to fluffed pillow and fresh mints on the bed. Here NYU students' social awareness is born: witness the benign sweatshops of American Apparel versus the hellholes where employees of other expensive Western clothing outlets toil.

===Senior year===

Forget university housing (or let it forget them) - two years in the city plus one in the bush have made NYU seniors real New Yorkers. They're living in apartments in Alphabet City now, not just because it has no subway access and it requires three hours of walking to get to class (they bought bigger iPods). No, it's the thing to do as you prepare for the leap to [[Williamsburg]] and beyond. After a brief stroll through the pomp, circumstance, and arcade games of Graduation Alley they are NYU alumni, and they're all staying in, of course, New York. The city opens its arms wide - what more does it need than 85,000 new interpretive dance majors?

==Graduate schools==

Of course, NYU is also a full-fledged university, with a complete complement of graduate schools. At Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia students who choose to [[School of the Arts|betray Alma Mater]] can earn professional degrees in such fast-growing fields as [http://design.tisch.nyu.edu/object/costume_design.html Costume Design]. NYU's law school is actually a top choice for many Columbia alums, because it is seen as less "evil" than Columbia's variant. This is clearly because its most famous alumnus, Rudy Giuliani, was the most kindhearted mayor in New York City history.

[[Image:Originalnyu.jpg|thumb|Original NYU campus: Not bad!]]

==Campus design: fail==

What's not so well known about NYU today is that they used to have their own [[McKim, Mead, and White]] designed campus, built around a domed library, which they then had to sell off to pay the bills: the University Heights ([[Bronx]]) campus, which was built around the same time as Columbia's move to [[Morningside Heights]].

[[Image:Nyucampus.jpg|thumb|Current NYU "campus": Where?]]

And here's the real difference between NYU and Columbia: NYU nearly went bankrupt in 1973 and sold off its campus to New York City. So NYU slunk back to its then-decrepit Washington Square Park, Bronx Community College is now located in a gorgeous MMW-designed campus, and we're still sitting pretty on our pretty campus. Take that!

==Exploiting NYU==

Columbia students can enjoy a number of NYU's unique advantages without ever having to associate themselves with the color purple or an English-language diploma.

===Library privileges===

What also might not be so obvious is the fact that all Columbia students with a valid [[CUID]] have access privileges to NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square South through a reciprocal agreement between the two schools.

One might suppose posting this may result in an influx of pseudo-hipsters at [[Butler]], but one must remember that NYU kids don't study due to a lack of literacy. This means that Bobst Library is almost always empty, except when used as a [[w:Bobst Boy|homeless]] shelter.

===Language classes===

Columbia has a reciprocal agreement with NYU to allow students to take whichever languages their own school does not offer at the other. In practice, this means there are a lot of options open to NYU students, and that Columbia students have the option to shuttle downtown if they ever want to take Gaelic or Cantonese.

==Athletic prowess==

The NYU "Bobcats" are named after the computerized library catalog, BOBst CATalog, but it's certainly an improvement over their former name ("Violets"; seriously, you can't make this stuff up). Naturally, they no longer boast a football team. However, they are, like Columbians, mean fencers.

== External links ==
*[http://www.bwog.net/tags/nyu_diaries Bwog's NYU Diaries series]
* [http://library.nyu.edu/about/columbia.html Butler Library/Bobst Library Reciprocal Access Policies]

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Caltech

2011-03-06T06:17:31Z

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'''The California Institute of Technology''' is a University like [[MIT]] on the outskirts of [[Los Angeles]], but many say that it is a SMBD Association with Housing.

Unlike [[MIT]], it is a tiny University, sometimes confused with a McMansion from a Hollywood star. Despite it's location, it's students rarely get out of the campus, since they have an incredible amout of work. [[Procrastination]] doesn't exist in Caltech, lest they want to stay 4 days without sleep working on their assignments.

Their [[Core Curriculum]] consists of Math and Sciences, and nothing else. Caltech is extremely focused on Engineering and Science, they have some Nobel Laureates, many of their students end up working for the NASA or on Silicon Valley, but at the expense of sucking their soul.

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San Francisco

2011-03-06T06:17:02Z

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'''San Francisco''' is a city on Northern [[California]], On the North of Silicon Valley. It has lots of touristic attractions, it's the center of many economic activities and it's the most liberal city on United States, if not the world.

It's rare to see someone from San Francisco in Columbia, since they usually opt for [[UCLA|other]] [[Berkeley|Universities]] [[Stanford|on the state of]] California. They're very different from [[Los Angeles|Angelenos]], but they're equally liberal and open-minded.

San Francisco is, in many ways, like [[Boston]].
San Francisco has 2 [[Berkeley|prestigious]] [[Stanford|Universities]], [[MIT|like]] [[Harvard|Boston]], on it's outskirts, they are often overshadowed by a southern city ([[Los Angeles]] and [[NYC]], respectively), and while those 2 southern cities are economically and racially diverse, San Francisco and Boston are dominated by Yuppies and Hipsters.

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UCLA

2011-03-06T06:16:30Z

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'''The University of California, Los Angeles''' (UC [[Los Angeles]], or '''UCLA''') is the second best Public University in the United States after [[Berkeley]] and the [[University of Michigan]] and the University with Most [[Pell Grant]]s, public or private.

While admittedly a good University, it's students rarely choose it for the academics; The main attractives are it's great spot in [[Los Angeles]], on the neighborhood of Westwood, near Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and everything that comes along with it, made even better by the fact that it's a public Institution.

It shares a rivalry with the [[University of Southern California]].
If one had to compare, UCLA is more akin to [[Columbia]], while USC is more like [[NYU]].

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Caltech

2011-03-06T06:07:07Z

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'''The California Institute of Technology''' is a University like [[MIT]] on the outskirts of [[Los Angeles]], but many say that it is a SMBD Association with Housing.

Unlike [[MIT]], it is a tiny University, sometimes confused with a McMansion from a Hollywood star. Despite it's location, it's students rarely get out of the campus, since they have an incredible amout of work. [[Procastination]] doesn't exist in Caltech, lest they want to stay 4 days without sleep working on their assignments.

Their [[Core Curriculum]] consists of Math and Sciences, and nothing else. Caltech is extremely focused on Engineering and Science, they have some Nobel Laureates, many of their students end up working for the NASA or on Silicon Valley, but at the expense of sucking their soul.

San Francisco

2011-03-06T05:50:21Z

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San Francisco

2011-03-06T05:49:38Z

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'''San Francisco''' is a city on Northern [[California]], On the North of Silicon Valley. It has lots of activities, it's the center of many economic activities and it's the most liberal city on United States, if not the world.

It's rare to see someone from San Francisco in Columbia, since they usually opt for [[UCLA|other]] [[Berkeley|Universities]] [[Stanford|on the state of]] California. They're very different from [[Los Angeles|Angelenos]], but they're equally liberal and open-minded.

San Francisco is, in many ways, like [[Boston]].
San Francisco has 2 [[Berkeley|prestigious]] [[Stanford|Universities]], [[MIT|like]] [[Harvard|Boston]], on it's outskirts, they are often overshadowed by a southern city ([[Los Angeles]] and [[NYC]], respectively), and while those 2 southern cities are economically and racially diverse, San Francisco and Boston are dominated by Yuppies and Hipsters.

UCLA

2011-03-06T05:36:53Z

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'''The University of California, Los Angeles''' (UC [[Los Angeles]], or '''UCLA''') is the second best Public University in the United States after [[Berkeley]] and the [[University of Michican]] and the University with Most [[Pell Grant]]s, public or private.

While admittedly a good University, it's students rarely choose it for the academics; The main attractives are it's great spot in [[Los Angeles]], on the neighborhood of Westwood, near Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and everything that comes along with it, made even better by the fact that it's a public Institution.

It shares a rivalry with the [[University of Southern California]].
If one had to compare, UCLA is more akin to [[Columbia]], while USC is more like [[NYU]].

UCLA

2011-03-06T05:35:43Z

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'''The University of California, Los Angeles''' (UC [[Los Angeles]], or '''UCLA''') is the second best Public University in the United States after [[Berkeley]] and the [[University of Michican]] and the University with Most [[Pell Grants]], public or private.

While admittedly a good University, it's students rarely choose it for the academics; The main attractives are it's great spot in [[Los Angeles]], on the neighborhood of Westwood, near Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and everything that comes along with it, made even better by the fact that it's a public Institution.

It shares a rivalry with the [[University of Southern California]].
If one had to compare, UCLA is more akin to [[Columbia]], while USC is more like [[NYU]].

Stanford University

2011-03-06T05:26:26Z

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[[Image:Playlarge6zi.jpg|right|thumb|Stanford students flee for their lives as their stronger, bolder cousins from [[University of California, Berkeley|Cal]] assert their dominance.]]

The '''Leland Stanford Junior University''' is a private research university located in sunny Palo Alto, [[California]], less than an Hour away from [[San Francisco]]. To avoid confusion over whether the "Junior" in the name modifies the preceding proper noun or the succeeding common noun, thus rendering it a glorified community college, the institution is generally known simply as '''Stanford University.'''

Leland Stanford Junior, the institution's namesake, died of typhoid at age 15. Yes, the university is named after a high school sophomore. Contrary to popular internet rumors, the Stanford parents did not endow Stanford after they were rudely treated by the president of Harvard who mistook them for riff raff.[http://www.snopes.com/glurge/stanford.asp]

Whatever your grandparents might think, Stanford is not an [[Ivy League]] school.

Back in 1934, Columbia routed Stanford in the [[1934 Rose Bowl]], where the Lions defeated the Indians 7-0 in Pasadena. Nowadays Stanford's mascot/team name is Cardinal. As in the color. Hence, even when they team is referred to in a plural context, they are known as the Stanford Cardinal, a la the Harvard Crimson.

"Stanford" is an anagram of "snodfart".

===Marching Band===
Like the [[Columbia University Marching Band]], the Stanford University Marching Band prides itself in irreverence and cleverness. This is only the claim, however. While admittedly the Stanford Band members are quite [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW0Gl2pOD8I irreverent], they are not very [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfebpLfAt8g clever].

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California

2011-03-06T05:10:06Z

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'''California''' is home to many Columbia students who do not hail from the East Coast. It's often amusing to watch California freshmen's reaction to the first snow (or, depending on your perspective, more amusing to watch as they begin to understand what a northeast winter is like several months on). It's also a lot of fun to see them getting lost on the [[subway]].

California is home to many prestigious Universities, which include [[UCLA]], [[Berkeley]], [[UCSD]], [[Stanford]], [[Caltech]] and the [[University of Southern California]], all which are inferior to the [[Ivy League| Universities]] [[MIT|on the East Coast]], but they get points for trying.

Like most city dwellers in the United States, students from [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]] insist on asserting their cities' superiority over [[New York City]]. They may or may not have a point, since it's home to both Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but it's still not enough to beat [[New York]]. In any case, Californians tend not to be either the most arrogant or the most narrow-minded people on earth, which is more than can be said of New Yorkers or New Englanders in General.

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California

2011-03-06T05:08:44Z

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'''California''' is home to many Columbia students who do not hail from the East Coast. It's often amusing to watch California freshmen's reaction to the first snow (or, depending on your perspective, more amusing to watch as they begin to understand what a northeast winter is like several months on). It's also a lot of fun to see them getting lost on the [[subway]].

California is home to many prestigious Universities, which include [[UCLA]], [[Berkeley]], [[UCSD]], [[Stanford]], [[Caltech]] and the [[University of Southern California]], all which are inferior to the [[Ivy Leage Universities]] on the East Coast, but they get points for trying.

Like most city dwellers in the United States, students from [[San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles]] insist on asserting their cities' superiority over [[New York City]]. They may or may not have a point, since it's home to both Silicon Valley and Hollywood, but it's still not enough to beat [[New York]]. In any case, Californians tend not to be either the most arrogant or the most narrow-minded people on earth, which is more than can be said of New Yorkers or New Englanders in General.

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