<p>I think the nerdy/geeky background of that urbandictionary definition, is probably great evidence that it is the right definition :|</p>
<p>That is unfortunately correct.</p>
<p>Not that I think “over 9000” jokes are cool, but in defense of Harvey Mudd “over 9000” has become a widely used internet meme and someone who uses it isn’t necessarily a dragon ball z fanatic.</p>
<p>Not that I really have a clue about what my son does at Mudd (which makes both of us happy), but I have never heard him mention dragon z ball or heard an over 9000 joke, so I think that the earlier post that there are all types at Mudd if you seek them out is correct. For a science, math, engineering driven group, they seem pretty diverse/interesting to me.</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=JTM]
“over 9000” has become a widely used internet meme and someone who uses it isn’t necessarily a dragon ball z fanatic.
[/quote]
True! I’ve heard it used by many folks who’ve never watched or even heard of Dragonball Z. Kind of like “All your base are belong to us.” In both cases, as I understand it, the joke comes from eye-rolling sarcasm over the cheesiness of the original source.</p>
<p>During geek<em>son’s college search, one of the things that impressed me the most about Mudd is the diversity of its students. I don’t mean ethnic or socioeconomic diversity (although I’m sure that’s there since most colleges work so hard to get it), but diversity of personalities, backgrounds, and interests. I imagine there are some two-dimensional characters there, but I haven’t encountered them or heard about them. What I met, and what geek</em>son told me about, were mostly people who could easily hold up their end of a very interesting, free-wheeling conversation over a two-hour lunch. Perhaps that’s more typical of upperclassmen than of entering students; if so, Mudd must be having the right effect.</p>
<p>Based on my limited observations and Muddslinger’s post about his/her schedule, I’d say that his/her current lack of a social life is self-imposed. How many lifelong friends are you going to make while you’re hiding in your room, showering, sleeping, or watching sitcom reruns?</p>
<p>(As a 40-something mom, I must cop to enjoying the occasional round of Super Smash Bros myself. :o)</p>
<p>As a mom of a rising junior, I have to agree with geek mom. My son is an outgoing, social kind of guy, and is holding a 3.3 GPA in engineering. He studies very hard, does tons of group study (which is social), and also seems to have a fun partying, hanging out with friends, etc. You have to get out there and find your people - trust they are out there.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>This is awesome 
!!</p>
<p>Well, I can’t I’ve made any friends at Mudd in the first place, so it’s possible that it’s self-imposed. There are also two trends that I can point out about studying and social life.</p>
<p>One thing that I’ve noticed is that having a GPA over 3.4 or so makes Mudd a LOT less fun. My roommates and I got 3.6+ GPA’s. One of my roommates transferred, and the other shares my views about Mudd’s social life pretty much exactly. So possibly laying off the books more and doing other things would be beneficial. GPA get exponentially harder to maintain the higher up the scale you go.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that studying in groups helps the social life quite a bit, but 95% of the time if my roommate and I didn’t understand a question, then nobody else did either. I got in the habit of studying primarily in my room where it’s easier to concentrate, then compare answers with my roommates. Also in hindsight I placed out of most of frosh math as well as the intro computer science course, and never needed much help in physics or hum. That basically limited my collaboration opportunities to only two or three classes, which wasn’t much. And one of those was chem, and I would always just collaborate with people in my hall for that so I didn’t have any need to leave.</p>
<p>Its worth noting a couple of things. First, things get easier as you progress through Mudd. The core is a reaper of souls, and often less interesting than our major courses. Also, different majors have different difficulties associated with them.</p>
<p>As a physics major I have a 3.7+ GPA overall. Yet I would consider myself a decently out-going person - at least enough to satisfy a college student. I dont party every night, but at least a couple per week. I hang out with friends and just chill at least a couple other nights of the week. And then I usually get in a couple nights of intense work. </p>
<p>Something that I find really helpful is just having a lot of friends in major with whom you can work with. This means usually you can have some mix socializing and working going on, and just more people to go to for help when needed. “Drinking quantum” was fun when it happened, even though it was at 50% pace or so.</p>
<p>““Drinking quantum” was fun when it happened, even though it was at 50% pace or so.”</p>
<p>Based upon this wording…it sounds like drinking quantum got stuff done (100%) and then did not get stuff done (0%) and thus the statistical mean is 50%.</p>
<p>Amused by quantized drinking quantum “when it happened”.</p>
<p>What’s drinking quantum?</p>
<p>drinking <<insert class=“” name=“” here=“”>> is when you do ridiculous homework for that class while drinking alcoholic beverages.</insert></p>
<p>examples:
drinking quantum
drinking stems
drinking big stems</p>
<p>this is not to be confused with events like king’s cup (everyone drinking IN materials science while reviewing solid state physics with prof king) or sahakian’s “water” bottle.</p>
<p>but really, mudders don’t drink THAT much… only when we are driven to do so! :D</p>
<p>Nope, it was more like drinking frontloaded with only slight drinking through the assignment, so it starts at like 20% and then ends at 80%</p>
<p>Hi, Fiona, congrats on getting in Harvey Mudd. it’s a great school.
I read your blog a year ago and you said you like to go MIT. What make you change?</p>
<p>I belive you can go MIT too based on your results. BtW, I am your fans…</p>
<p>mudd is a heck of a schoo; the only thing i wouldnt like about it is that its a no no pretyy much if u end up not liking math, science and enginering</p>
<p>harvey mudd alumnus makes the 3rd most amount of money right after graduation. its behind caltech & MIT.</p>
<p>if i’ve ever read any piece of unsourced information, that’s it.</p>
<p>and I am by no means a mudd/caltech/mit hater.</p>
<p>Believe it comes from this: [Best</a> Colleges, Best College Majors, Best College Degrees](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges]Best”>2023 College Rankings by Salary Potential | Payscale)</p>
<p>^ Based on median salaries, from self-reported populations, excluding those who hold graduate degrees, with a +/- 10% confidence interval. :eek: It’s an interesting survey, but I don’t think it would convince me to run out and buy a brand new truck if I were a newly accepted Mudder.</p>
<p>On the subject of jobs, though, at pre-frosh weekend I was very impressed with the measures HMC has taken to help graduating Mudders find good jobs in the economic downturn. Let’s just say the large public uni I attended (with the dinosaurs) didn’t go to such lengths.</p>
<p>Wasn’t a salary survey listing HMC among the top 3 earners published in the Wall Street Journal?</p>