Harvey Mudd ROCKS!!!

hi everybody! I hope you guys are having fun times where ever you are (btw, do we write 'where ever' or 'whereever' ?). I am having a WONDERFUL time here :D

Even after I decided to attend Mudd, I still wondered what it would be to attend Imperial -- in a way, I sort of regretted that I decided to go to Mudd instead of Imperial. But after seeing the campus for myself, and the people, of course, no regrets! :)

There are 13 guys and 13 girls in this program. THey are nice people :) The majority of the guys is pretty shy and quiet; and actually, also is the majority of the girls. I mean, quiet compared to ... let's say... the average people in the world. There are also the friendly and talkative type, but still less talkative than the talkative people in the world (ugh... bell curve shifted ;) ) THere is a joke between us and the mentors of the summer program (the mentors are sophomores- they are awesome and super-friendly), that the guy-mentors should give a social lesson to the guys since on the first days we were kind of separated by gender (the guys on one side of the room/court and the girls on the other) i.e. how to talk to girls etc. somebody said that in MIT, they actually do give a lesson like that (how to flirt with girls, and so on...) , which is... funny :D THey are really nice and fun, actually :)

Oh by the way....

Adhira, my mom said you called the day I left! Maybe I should have called when I left home. my dad didn't bring his cellphone, so my mom couldnt call him and let me know about it...

Margie: God, Harvey Mudd is heaven! You will definitely LOVE it here!

Tanika: I asked the school (before I left) to send a certified copy of my IB stuff.. but mr knight wasn't there still.. I don't know if you've tried to contact him. (uh.. by now he's in school already, i guess :P )

Grace: Hey, you still have my periodic table!! hehe... maybe you should keep it for a while. it's kind of complicated to return it through people, isn't it?

we did a couple of tests today. chem and math assessment tests. chem is easy - only 5 questions and they're the really basic stoichiometry ones. no calculator though, so it's hard to get the ratios etc. the math one is so hard! i forget a lot of calculus stuff already (fortunately, so do everybody else! - at least, that's what they said).

Claremont is a really nice town, but really small - I haven't gone around much, but I'm pretty srue it's about the size of dasma and the two forbes put together). Next door is another town called Montclair (not really creative, right?). There are a lot of cars passing by the streets, but I hardly see anybody walking around the streets here.

I'm writing from one of their computer labs in a building called Linde Activity Center - it has nice gathering space and... a gym! hehehe .. :D Anyway... I'll write more later. Margie, I hope I can see you when you get here on the 19th!

cya!