<p>What are the stereotypes for each dorm? (I remember my tour guide talking alot about that). </p>
<p>Also, are there any linux enthusiasts on campus?</p>
<p>Here are the stereotypes of the dorms, specifically post 9:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/337792-west-vs-linde.html?highlight=dorms+stereotypes[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/337792-west-vs-linde.html?highlight=dorms+stereotypes</a></p>
<p>It’s a pc. I don’t even know how old it is. It’s fine for things like typing and facebook, but it freezes when I have more than 5 tabs open in firefox and I imagine something like photoshop would kill it.</p>
<p>Do you need to have your own computer for programming? (I’m a total CS n00b, so I have no idea if this is a dumb question)</p>
<p>I know there are plenty computers on campus… I’m assuming you can use those for your assignments. And I don’t think the programming software takes up much memory… I honestly don’t know much about CS, but one of my friends downloaded a free C++ program for me and it was very basic (no pun intended) and didn’t take up a lot of memory.</p>
<p>When I asked what kind of computer I meant what model. If it freezes that easily, yeah, you might want to get a computer with more ram/ a faster processor. It really depends on what you feel comfortable with. From the sounds of it, I personally would get another laptop if possible. If you can’t, you should be fine using the computers on campus for assignments if you have any difficulties with your laptop, although a bit of an inconvenience.</p>
<p>oh you definitely won’t need a powerful computer for programming.
but i kinda would appreciate an extra monitor in addition to my laptop one to have several pages of code open at once.</p>
<p>Haha, I know I have probably posted quite late on the topic of Asian food.</p>
<p>I don’t know any stores right next door to Harvey Mudd, but I know that approximately half an hour away, around the Diamond Bar/Nogales Street/Colima drive area, there are quite a number of Asian restaurants. They’re mainly Chinese restaurants, but I know there are also Korean restaurants too. (I can’t help you on the actual supermarkets, however. The only supermarkets I know are Hong Kong Plaza and 99 Ranch market over there.)</p>
<p>Daikokuya Ramen is -really- good though (close to the aforementioned sites). I’m planning on going there if I can while I’m at Mudd. :D</p>
<p>@Blackroses: Nice link. Remember, though, that dorm personalities change somewhat over time. West is (sadly) tamer than it was in the past. Case seems to have more going on. The ■■■■■■ at Norf aren’t as heteronormative as they used to be.</p>
<p>Dorm stereotypes are funny in a way, but they totally overlook all the different subcultures within each dorm… If there’s one mistake I’ve made, it’s reading too much into different people based off of where they live.</p>
<p>The stereotypes are useful for giving someone a general idea of the campus and the kind of people that go here, but otherwise can be bad assumptions. Oh, and they also make good taunts for epic innertube water polo battles 
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<p>Anyway, the main thing that I would like to disagree with on the old post is the description of people in East and gamers in general. Yes, there is a sizable population of gamers and you can definitely find others who will play whatever strikes your fancy. However, I’m at another tech school for the summer, and just about every gamer I’ve met (there’s lots of them here) is an order of magnitude more creepy/dirty/game-addicted than anyone I’ve met at Mudd. So…Mudd gamers might not be as weird as those posts made you think, and not all Easties are gamers (though everyone is definitely a bit eccentric, and if you think that’s a bad thing then you probably don’t belong there). Also, as esquiar said, Case is a bit more lively now (more of a nonalcoholic kind of fun, but definitely not completely silent). It all happens in the hallways and lounges/quads, which are locked to nonresidents, but its hard not to get card swipe access if you have a friend in the dorm. </p>
<p>@originalthought
A lot of people I know at least dual-boot Linux (mostly Ubuntu, of course), and quite a few are running really random distros that I’ve never heard of (which isn’t saying much, considering that my Linux partition lies nearly untouched at the moment). My sample might be a little biased since I’m a CS major and I hang out in East on occasion, but you will definitely be able to find other Linux enthusiasts on campus.</p>
<p>Go to the computer lab late at night to see the… gamers.</p>
<p>@originalthought It might have just been the group of people I was around, but I have a feeling that there are quite a few linux enthusiasts on campus. I also know a lot of people that at least dual boot linux (including myself… they converted me) and a smaller few that seem to use it almost exclusively (except for the gaming thing… then they use Windows).</p>
<p>@itsjj You don’t need to have your own computer for CS, but it is nice. You’ll have access to the labs at the LAC and in Academics, so there are alternatives, but it was definitely a lot easier to just sit wherever I wanted at stare at the screen for an extended period of time.</p>
<p>And the gamers I know /can/ be intense about their games, but as a non-gamer, I still think they’re awesome people! :p</p>