A place where the best, smartest, cutest, and the nicest people go to discover that science is not their favorite subject. These schools have science-oriented curricula but still give their students room for their interests.

Briefly, "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own." Originally from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which has a lot more beautiful neologism definitions like this you might enjoy.