I shall take the opportunity to rant.
I had my orientation for my master's program in Public Policy yesterday (through tomorrow), and I'm sooo disappointed at the people. I was assuming that I'd finally be with people who actually know a little something about politics and social issues and who might have something interesting to say.
But no. They all fit into the exact same little stereotypical niches as everyone did in undergrad.

All the black people segregated themselves off and had a loud conversation about slave reparations, which every single one of them thought they deserved. The frat-boy types whipped out their cell phones and left loud messages about how drunk so-and-so was last night. The unrealistic tree-hugger environmentalists were in full effect, with their "I spent entirely too much to look like I didn't try at all" outfits. The clean-cut guy and girl that stumped me at first turned out to both be ignorant conservatives, just graduated from the Air Force Academy, and the military is not only paying their tuition, but paying
them to go to class. And all the rest don't speak English, oddly enough. I'm wondering how the fuck they wrote their entrance essays. I mean, diversity is great, but not when they can't fucking communicate.
Just my luck, the only three people I hit it off with are PhD students, so I'll never see them again.