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I just attended the Admitted Student Program of Harvey Mudd College this past weekend (April 9-10) and, wow, even with my high expectations of what HMC is like and of the students, it still exceeded my expectations. I went even though I am sure of going, just to get a feel for what it is like.

First of all, the students are awesome. Everyone that I’ve met there has been friendly. They answer your questions, give you tips for the future, tell you what they’ve been through, and help you with everything that you might need help on.

The faculty is also one that I look forward to working with in the near future. I’ve attended a couple of classes (Intro to Astrophysics, General Chemistry, and some class on digital circuits I think) and a lecture on string theory by Vatche Sahakian. I’ve fallen in love (no, not literally) with the physics department at HMC. The lecture was very interesting, and the astrophysics class was just as good. Now I’m also giving some thought about doing physics instead of engineering.

The food was amazingly good. Much better than what I’d expect for food at a college. Sunday night was prime rib night. And I don’t think that was done just to get us to pay $40k a year; Diego, my host’s suite-mate, said that it is normal, and many students from the other 4Cs come over for sunday dinner.

The other surprising thing was that the I didn’t actually see any Mudders do homework at all over the weekend. All were watching movies, TV shows, playing games, or just chillin’. From what everyone hears about the workload, I was expecting everyone to work their butt off, but no, they just sat around and seemed quite relaxed about everything.

After this whole experience, I am glad that I chose HMC and that I’ll be going next year. And hopefully it really isn’t as bad as they say and that they are just trying to scare us prefroshs. But I doubt it.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 9:00 am and is filed under General, School.