Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College is a small college (~800 students) located in Claremont, CA. It is focused on science and engineering, and offers four-year degrees in chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, and engineering. In addition, a five year program is available to engineering students who wish to obtain a master's degree. Finally, students may elect to complete an Independent Program of Study made up of courses of their own choosing. Usually between two and five students graduate with an IPS degree each year.

Harvey Mudd College is within walking distance of [Pomona College]?, [Pitzer College]?, [Scripps College]?, and [Claremont McKenna College]?. Students at these colleges may take classes at any of them, though classes in the student's concentration (major) are normally taken at their own college.

Harvey Mudd College Dormitories
Evidence that this is an engineering school: the dormitories at Mudd are known as North Dorm, South Dorm, East Dorm and West Dorm; when they added two more dorms they called them New Dorm and New II. When New II was being built some students decided as a prank? to move all of the survey stakes a few feet in one direction. However, either they didn't move them all correctly, or the surveyors weren't quite done yet - all the stakes had to be resurveyed at some significant expense.

Architecture
One of the fun things about Mudd is that most of the computer labs, as well as the major social gathering point (the Mudd Hole), are located in the basements of the concrete-block buildings; ie. much of what passes for social life (aside from parties discussed elsewhere) takes place underground. Most of these buildings are also covered with thousands of concrete handholds perfectly suited for buildering?.

Rivalry with Caltech
There is a long-standing rivalry between Harvey Mudd and the nearby Caltech; except this rivalry is basically unacknowledged by Caltech. For example; in another typical prank, students from Mudd "stole" a memorial cannon from Caltech by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for "cleaning"; Caltech students got it back by having their school President threaten legal action.