<p>I'm graduating from Mudd on Sunday. I seem to have forgotten where I saw myself... </p>
<p>Let's hear about where you think you'll be or what you'll be doing when you graduate from Mudd...</p>
<p>I will be in graduate school, pretty much doing the exact same thing I am doing right now except with less humanities.</p>
<p>Well, I was hoping for more input from prospective students…</p>
<p>I think this is something that people should be thinking about when applying to college…</p>
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<p>Meh, not to be nitpicky, but grad school is supposedly very different from undergrad. All the focus is on research, and classes and grades are seen as a necessary evil that get in the way of your research. Mudd still has a bit more emphasis on classes and less on research than would be required of it to truly emulate graduate school.</p>
<p>The closest I got was in the last month before I graduated, when I did the bulk of my research and writing of my senior thesis while leaving all my other coursework aside as a distraction ;).</p>
<p>I’m not a prefrosh, but I can remember what I imagined last year well enough.</p>
<p>I thought I’d be working for Google or Mozilla and be married (or about to be) to some wonderfully geeky person.</p>
<p>Wow…things have changed in a year. I still wish that I could be working for some awesome company in a few years, but I’ve learned that I have a surprising lack of drive compared to my fellow students, so I no longer see it as a surefire possibility. If I want any chance of making it I’ve got to pull my GPA up a little, and actually find some interesting side project to impress the employers with (The CS grads I talked to seemed to think that the Open Source projects that they worked on were infinitely more important in their interviews than anything they’d done in class…huh). As for married, that was mostly because my mom was married right out of college so I assumed it was sort of normal. Now my priorities are a little more straightened…not that I don’t still see it as an (albeit faint) possibility, but there are definitely things much more important out there than an “MRS degree”. (Mudd guys are awesome, especially compared to the desperate Caltech guys who came to the Mudd-Caltech party…but at a school this small the slightest requirement can leave you looking at less than 20 guys) </p>
<p>…yikes that was long.</p>
<p>I found this thread after I searched google for some good answers. This was asked at the most recent interview and I couldnt help but think how boring I would be (?).
5 years from today - A guy with a masters degree in EE, Project engineer or senior engineer at some good company.
I too would like to hear what people thought and how they ended up.</p>
<p>going to grad school. I would like to say that I want to go to MIT or Caltech for grad, but seeing that I said the same thing before I went to high school, I’m not sure I abide by that.</p>
<p>I want to do physics or engineering, but I want to pursue something research oriented than industrial.</p>
<p>Also, while in Harvey Mudd, I want to join a decent dance crew in LA and be performing time to time.</p>
<p>I would go to grad school. Ideally in England (Oxford or Warwick), but Caltech would be okay, and if I don’t end up being good enough for those places, coming home to the University of Michigan would be just fine too.</p>