Prefrosh Weekend

I was going to put up a bunch of pictures of happy laughing prefrosh. But most of them didn't want me to take their picture, so instead:



Mudders, looking for prefrosh, so that the Mudders can show the prefrosh where their dorms are.




Yay, it's Prefrosh Weekend!


Other than that, it's time for some Fun Mudd Facts!

Fun Fact #1:
Mudd has 4 "quad" dorms. They are shaped like the letter "U" and are the closest to things like the dining hall and the classrooms. They are laid out and named like this:

South-----------------North

West------------------East

There's actually a reason they have those names:
In the beginning, Mudd had one dorm: East. It was called "East" because it was the eastmost building on campus. North and West were built after East. North was north of East, and West was west of East. So, of course, those dorms were called "North" and "West." Then Mudd built a fourth dorm. Mudders, seeing that there was a fourth dorm and four cardinal directions, began calling it "South."
South was, and still is, the northernmost of all the dorms. But Mudders don't let that stop them from calling it "South."

Fun Fact #2:
Mudd has a relatively large building known as "Platt." The first floor contains offices and a large open space with lots of couches. The second floor has Jay's (a pizza place), the offices for Facilities and Maintenance (F&M), and a large music practice room.
Platt used to be Mudd's dining hall. Platt is no longer Mudd's dining hall because Platt is way too small to be Mudd's dining hall. But it makes a pretty nice building for offices and the Platt living room.

Fun Fact #3:
The Mudd campus gently slopes downhill from the dorms to the classrooms. This makes skateboarding (or scootering, or bicycling, or rollerblading) to class very simple. Based on a completely nonscientific visual survey of people I see going to class in the morning, I'd say between one-third and one-half of all Mudders take some sort of wheeled transportation to class. Of those, about half are skateboarders. Of the remaining users of wheeled transportation, about two-thirds use bikes, and most of the rest use scooters. I also regularly see two people who rollerblade to class.
(It's also highly recommended that you use some form of wheeled transportation if you take a class at another of the 5Cs, especially if you take a class at Pomona. Why? Pomona is about a mile away, and you have 10 minutes between classes.)

There may be more pictures during the weekend (especially if my E4 group begins building this weekend). If not, look for my update next week!