<p>The stereotypes are useful for giving someone a general idea of the campus and the kind of people that go here, but otherwise can be bad assumptions. Oh, and they also make good taunts for epic innertube water polo battles 
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<p>Anyway, the main thing that I would like to disagree with on the old post is the description of people in East and gamers in general. Yes, there is a sizable population of gamers and you can definitely find others who will play whatever strikes your fancy. However, I’m at another tech school for the summer, and just about every gamer I’ve met (there’s lots of them here) is an order of magnitude more creepy/dirty/game-addicted than anyone I’ve met at Mudd. So…Mudd gamers might not be as weird as those posts made you think, and not all Easties are gamers (though everyone is definitely a bit eccentric, and if you think that’s a bad thing then you probably don’t belong there). Also, as esquiar said, Case is a bit more lively now (more of a nonalcoholic kind of fun, but definitely not completely silent). It all happens in the hallways and lounges/quads, which are locked to nonresidents, but its hard not to get card swipe access if you have a friend in the dorm. </p>
<p>@originalthought
A lot of people I know at least dual-boot Linux (mostly Ubuntu, of course), and quite a few are running really random distros that I’ve never heard of (which isn’t saying much, considering that my Linux partition lies nearly untouched at the moment). My sample might be a little biased since I’m a CS major and I hang out in East on occasion, but you will definitely be able to find other Linux enthusiasts on campus.</p>