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Harvey Mudd College
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Discover how to get good grades, stay safe, meet new people, save money, & have lots of fun!
We’ll give you the lowdown that can make or break your college experience.
160 pages of real insider information to help you decide if this is the right college for you.
Learn the ropes on everything from parking to dorms to off-campus dining.
Harvey Mudd College Students
Tell It Like It Is
Harvey Mudd students may be some of the best in the country, but that doesn't mean the College is all about academics. Harvey Mudd kids know how to have a good time, too . . .
Fat Joey
Not quite a legend yet, but rather a standing memorial to drunken carousing, this event took place in the backwaters of Linde Dorme. A very drunk student, armed with bottles of shaving cream, sprayed the words “Fat Joey” onto the wall of the Linde Dorme upper lounge. Unfortunately, the student failed to realize in his incoherent state that shaving cream soaks into the cinder wall, making the words impossible to scrub out. After a year of pressure washing, the words still stood, so we decided to make a dedication. A plaque now hangs officially in the upper Linde lounge, the Fat Joey lounge, “in order to celebrate in part the generosity of Adam Kangas with a bottle of shaving cream on the date of . . .”
Want to be a Mudder? No, it’s not a dirty word. It’s the nickname for students at Harvey Mudd College. Actually, approximately one quarter of Mudd’s freshmen are National Merit Scholars. Mudd also has the highest percentage of graduates who go on to receive a PhD of any undergrad program in the nation.
So, obviously, Mudd has great academics. But what about its surroundings?
“Wow, there’s nothing; Claremont is a little, little village with nothing going on, and the cool stuff happens on the five campuses—bah to the city!”
“Mount Baldy is a nice place to visit. I would stay away from the town of Pomona, though.”
And dorms?
“The dorms are good, except the quad dorm names are way off. East is south of North, South is north of West and west of North, and the northernmost dorm is actually South. It’s crazy, and you can’t think about it too hard, or you’ll fail your physics midterm.”
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Find out if Harvey Mudd has something for you, straight from the students’ mouths. Visiting campus isn't enough.
Read our Harvey Mudd College insider’s guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
Discover if Harvey Mudd is Right For You.
Fat Joey
Not quite a legend yet, but rather a standing memorial to drunken carousing, this event took place in the backwaters of Linde Dorme. A very drunk student, armed with bottles of shaving cream, sprayed the words “Fat Joey” onto the wall of the Linde Dorme upper lounge. Unfortunately, the student failed to realize in his incoherent state that shaving cream soaks into the cinder wall, making the words impossible to scrub out. After a year of pressure washing, the words still stood, so we decided to make a dedication. A plaque now hangs officially in the upper Linde lounge, the Fat Joey lounge, “in order to celebrate in part the generosity of Adam Kangas with a bottle of shaving cream on the date of . . .”
Want to be a Mudder? No, it’s not a dirty word. It’s the nickname for students at Harvey Mudd College. Actually, approximately one quarter of Mudd’s freshmen are National Merit Scholars. Mudd also has the highest percentage of graduates who go on to receive a PhD of any undergrad program in the nation.
So, obviously, Mudd has great academics. But what about its surroundings?
“Wow, there’s nothing; Claremont is a little, little village with nothing going on, and the cool stuff happens on the five campuses—bah to the city!”
“Mount Baldy is a nice place to visit. I would stay away from the town of Pomona, though.”
And dorms?
“The dorms are good, except the quad dorm names are way off. East is south of North, South is north of West and west of North, and the northernmost dorm is actually South. It’s crazy, and you can’t think about it too hard, or you’ll fail your physics midterm.”
Wow, that information is helpful. And there’s plenty more where that came from!
Find out if Harvey Mudd has something for you, straight from the students’ mouths. Visiting campus isn't enough.
Read our Harvey Mudd College insider’s guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
Discover if Harvey Mudd is Right For You.