<p>I had this question: "Are there printers in each dorm?" and decided that it would be better to make a new thread of a collection of such random questions.</p>
<p>So, are there printers in each dorm?</p>
<p>Cuz it would be a pain to walk to a different building just for one paper. I'd bring my own printer if that's the case</p>
<p>No, there aren’t. Many students bring their own printers. My son took a printer last semester, but brought it home over the Christmas break – he’d never used it and he wanted to reclaim the desk space. There are enough printers on campus to make it convenient for him to go without one on his desk. So I’d say a printer may be a nice thing to have, but isn’t essential.</p>
<p>hmmm… interesting. my high school has one in every dorm. I guess I’ll bring mine then.</p>
<p>I have another question. What is a typical schedule for sports or any other demanding activity?</p>
<p>My friend does track and it’s every weekday afternoon.</p>
<p>and practice is around 2 hours, 3 hours?</p>
<p>On the printer, I will ditto geek_mom. My son’s printer broke sometime early last semester. He hasn’t replaced it yet even though I offered to pay for it, so it mustn’t be much of an inconvenience not to have one. He said it got in the way. So the space is better than the printer.</p>
<p>When will students find out which dorm they are in? Not until right before school starts?</p>
<p>I received the email containing room info 1-Aug-2009.</p>
<p>Just curious. Why are there almost no guys not living in the dorms? Is it because the houses are expensive to rent?</p>
<p>And talking about houses (which made me think of fraternity houses), I wonder why there isn’t a Claremont Colleges fraternity. Harvey Mudd itself is small to have a fraternity, but the whole Claremonts are big enough</p>
<p>Let me restate your question: Why do most people live on-campus?</p>
<p>My opinion: It’s infinitely convenient to live on campus. Even the furthest dorm - Linde - is still ridiculously close to the dining hall, Academics, etc. Living off-campus has a marginal increase in efficiency, which people won’t want to bear. Unlike Pasadena, for example, Claremont doesn’t have many apartment-y housing off-campus available for students.</p>
<p>As a parent thinking of sending a kid long distance to school, I like the idea that most students live on campus. Do the upperclassmen tire of the food? (The other dining halls on Claremont would help give variety… but four years is a long time.)</p>
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<p>That’s what I was gonna say but then I remembered that most people do live on-campus in every college. :p</p>
<p>Colorado_mom, isn’t tiring of the food inevitable? 
Dining hall is still dining hall, no matter which way you slice it. I cook quite a lot, since I don’t like dining hall food, but I reckon most people just live and let live.</p>
<p>talking about food, how far is chipotle?</p>
<p>I think my son rarely eats in Hoch-Shannon. He goes to the other schools, particularly Scripps sometimes. But mostly, he makes his own. You can do wonders with a fridge, microwave, and occasionally using the dorm kitchen. Not sure how balanced his diet is, but hey, he’s young.</p>
<p>Actually, at the University of Michigan, only about 40% of students live on campus.</p>
<p>I tired of the Hoch food after a year or two, but since it’s the most easily available I’ve somehow gotten over my disgust. Pitzer has an awesome grill and lunch sandwich bar, Scripps and CMC are occasionally good, Pomona is fairly far but is generally alright. In N’ Out and Chipotle are both a 7-10 minute drive, rarely worth the time to walk. The village is a 20 minute walk for pretty great food, though of course is more expensive.</p>
<p>@Dining Halls: Most Frosh I know really liked the food until around December, then it started to taste just so-so. Most seniors end up on an 8 plan. They like to go to area restaurants more frequently.</p>
<p>@Maruhan: Chipotle is maybe a fifteen minute bikeride down Foothill Blvd? The problem is we always go to In-N-Out because it’s half as far along the same road.</p>
<p>As far as frats go, there’s really no need because the dorms tend to be close-knit. I would also think of North and especially West as being similar to frats in certain ways. Also, Pomona has two frats and one co-ed Greek group, but they’re not very visible, at least to non-Pomona students.</p>
<p>I’m in love with Chipotle
10 min drive is great! I’ll drive there every week.</p>
<p>/is jealous of car-owners/</p>