An introduction, of sorts

I'm Skye, and I'm a Mudder. ("Mudder" is slang used at the Claremont Colleges for "a student who attends Harvey Mudd College.") In case you have stumbled across this blog without any knowledge of what this "Harvey Mudd College" is, I have a brief summary:
Harvey Mudd College is a small liberal arts college with a strong emphasis on science and technology. However, science isn't all we Mudders do; in order to graduate, each of us have to have a concentration (similar to a minor) in a Humanities or Social Sciences subject in addition to a science major. (Some students take an off-campus major, in which case they must have an on-campus concentration.) If I go into much more detail than that, this post will be at least 20 pages long, so I have a link to the HMC website on this blog. ("HMC" is another one of those terms that means "Mudd.")

Who am I? I'm a freshman at Mudd. I currently live in a Scripps College dorm; however, I spend most of my time in East Dorm at Mudd, where I want to live next year. I'm planning to major in engineering and concentrate in music. I'm one of the few jazz bass guitarists who's also a classically trained flute player. I took flute lessons for several years at the University of Memphis, which is about half an hour away from my house, which is about 1,800 miles away from Mudd. My training on bass guitar comes from a hodgepodge of sources--myself, my uncle, books, teachers, and the Internet.
I came to Mudd for a whole host of reasons: the professors are approachable, the professors are good teachers, the students are friendly, the students do more with their lives than just math and science, the administration is responsive to the needs of students, and the Mudd community is very close-knit and accepting of its members. I went to Mudd and not a school more focused on science because I didn't want to have to give up music and literature in order to become an engineer. I went to Mudd and not a liberal arts college because I wanted to become an engineer.

There is one problem with the above description of myself--it fits into a neat narrative, and I don't. I skateboard across campus--partly because it's a downhill ride from the dorms to the academic end of campus, and partly because it's fun. I have a bike that's currently broken in at least 3 different ways. I really like my engineering class and my psychology class, and I'm beginning to suspect that I like them for the same reason--"Oh, that's how that works! Neat!" I like to read, I like to write, and I like to take things apart and put them back together.

I am one of the many Mudders on campus, and one of five whose blogs are being linked back to the Mudd Admissions website so that those curious about Mudd can hear what it's like to live at Mudd. And since there are five of us, it's likely you'll hear very different things about what Mudd is like. Just remember that they're all true, even when they contradict each other. Every person's life at Mudd is different. Every person at Mudd is different. Everything I write here can only be representative of the way I see things. If you think what I'm saying is strange, you can check out the other Mudder's blogs to see what they have to say. (Or you can look at their blogs anyway, because they're fun to read.)

So, in conclusion:
1) My name is Skye.
2) I am a Mudder.
3) This is my blog.

Any questions?