<p>Muddslinger’s comment about his Calc III class is definitely a valid concern. I loved the people in my calc III class, and I love the people here, so I suppose its not a half bad measure…</p>
<p>On the other hand, don’t give up on Mudd just because none of your current friends are math/sciencey. Of my friends from home, only one can relate at all to going through engineering school (she’s at CU-Boulder), and only one other is getting a B.S. (Chemistry) - the rest are majoring in some sort of liberal artsy thing. When I was a senior in H.S. I thought that I was going to miss the diversity of passions a lot more than I actually do now that I’m here - when I visited I was convinced that I was going to spend all of my lunches speaking German at the Oldenborg Center on Pomona, and that I would make at least half of my friends down there. As it turns out I don’t have a single Pomona friend, since I ended up loving the nerds up here on Mudd after all (nothing’s wrong with Pomona, but its a lot easier to hang out with people on campus…and if you’ve found your niche on campus then there’s no reason to leave). I do have friends at Scripps though, which is admittedly kind of nice. I guess I’d just recommend joining some sort of intercampus club, especially if you’re worried about being friends only with Mudders.</p>