<p>Thank you Sunnyholiday. I have been struggling today how to respond. Your response was perfect. I would like to know how to help as well. My son’s experience at Mudd has been very different – other than the working like a dog part and the fact that he like a number of Mudders has had the flu too. They have encouraged the kids not to come to class when they are sick and to my knowledge the professors have been accomodating on extensions for assignments for those who have been sick. The other thing is that the first semester is pass/fail, so there is time to pull up the grades and pass the core classes.</p>