As someone who attends one of the hardest STEM schools in the country, there's a huge mixup between pseuds, decently smart people, and autists who max INT but min CHA. There's a baseline IQ for you to even survive at this school.
There's a really popular science TV show that has filmed several episodes on campus, so every year we get flooded with freshmen who think it's gonna be super awesome with explosions and supercomputers and dinosaurs and shit. Then they start taking classes, and are the most insufferable shitstains you can imagine. They interrupt professors with stupid bullshit they read on some xkcd comic. They don't attend class at all, thinking that bumming adderall and copying down formulas from the book at the last minute before the test will save them (it won't). The last time Kari, Tori, and Grant were here people kept asking them dumb fucking questions about the zombie apocalypse.
Everyone who graduates from this school must learn very basic quantum mechanics in the mandatory chemistry courses, yet you still overhear pseuds talking about shit like quantum healing and unified field theory and other hippie dippy fluff that you wonder how they are passing their classes.
