<p>colorado_mom - My little brother was at CU engineering days this weekend as well!</p>
<p>In <em>general</em>, there isn’t much interaction between the 5Cs. In other words, most people don’t just randomly make friends on other campuses; for the most part people stick to their kind. On the other hand, within clubs there is plenty of cross-campus interaction. In the clubs that are either small (A capella groups) or have a potentially large time commitment (the ballroom dance company), the friendships are especially close. In other words, cross campus friendships don’t just happen on their own - one has to make some sort of effort (even if that effort is as small as joining a club you planned to join already).</p>
<p>It is quite true that Mudd and Scripps have the tightest relationship. The complementary gender ratios helps a little, and we often host parties that we only invite Scripps to. Due to the proximity we are also more likely to visit eachothers dining halls and be on eachothers campuses in general, so this is the one case I can think of where cross campus friendships do regularly spring up outside of clubs.</p>
<p>I would say that there isn’t any serious geek/prep attitude, at least not on the level of high school. Most Mudders I know feel the least close to CMC, which supplies most of the athletes for the CMS athletic teams. Many of us have a default negative attitude towards CMCers because they can be jerks (too belligerent in IM Sports, too drunk at our parties), but we certainly don’t feel at all socially inferior to them, and they generally respect us (if only because they wouldn’t be able to come to our parties anymore if they screwed up too badly).</p>