My Posh Luxurious University

So... Recently I mentioned to some people in Beijing that I went to school at Berkeley for undergrad. They told me that I was lucky to go to such a posh school in the US. POSH? POSH!!! As a Berkeley grad, I find this to be an offensive comment. I mean, it's not like I went to Stanford or other ivy-league school. What has this world come to? I didn't spend four years at a public university dealing with riots, protests, fights, naked men in my dorm room and man-hating feminists to carry around an image of ... POSH!
I normally don't even volunteer this kind of information because it always carries a lot of baggage. For people that live in the United States, Berkeley conjures up images of a totally hippy, counter-cultural school filled with intelligent, over-achieving long-haired freaks. For foreigners, they just think that Berkeley is a school filled with intelligent people. I can live with the hippy, counter-cultural freak part. The assumption of intelligence part is easily dispelled with only 5 minutes of exposure to my behavior (I just don't like dealing with the disappointment).