I remember the exact look and head tilt, like a celebrity faux-embarrassed at being recognized
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At my first conf, USAEE, I freaked out a group of 10 PhDs from MIT by pretending not to know their uni. 2 got so angry they emailed me material showing how cool their school was

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“Oh, cool. So is it like the Cal Tech of the East Coast?”
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Same experience. Someone referred to “Hotchkiss” without explanation and I thought it was a hopscotch thing
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Lmao losers
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Which college?
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Like being at Georgetown and expected to know the name of the elite Jesuit prep school of every big city
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Yeah but after four years, I think I know them all now!
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Somehow I thought coming from a competitive public high school where I’d done well would mean that stuff didn’t matter. Was in for so many surprises.
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