Music

Okay, either he sleeps with it on, or he just pulled an all nighter. Or maybe he hasn't been back to his room. God, that would be obnoxious. It's not even like it's coming through the intercom. I just share a wall with a noisy person, AGAIN. Suiting rooms is beginning to sound really attractive. I've slept over there more than I haven't recently, mostly to get away from the music, but Josh was staying up late working last night.

Intercom

Actually come to think of it, the intercom is really pretty incidental, since everything I've heard through it seems to have come from Nils' room and I could also hear through the wall.

Harvey Mudd "Campus Life"

According to: http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/campuslife.asp?listing=1023484<ID=1

I find some of this stuff amusing. For example, the first two "Counseling services" listed are "Birth Control" and "Religious," Now I wouldn't be surprised if these are the two most important ones, but it's still silly to see them listed together. Almost as silly as keeping them in the same building as each other. "Upstairs for God, downstairs for backrubs and condoms."

And here's the list of housing options:
Coed Dorms
Apts for Married Students
Apts for Single Students
Other Housing

Apts for Single Students confuses me. As a Mudd student, I think I know what they mean, but it's a little unclear. Are there really schools that would, say, allow a married couple to live together in some apartment building, but not allow a pair of unmarried girls to live there? That would be totally bazzar.

Also, it says that 70% of freshmen graduate in 4 years. I've been wondering about that number for a while.

And here are some other interesting numbers. Mudd accepts 26% of the men who apply and 55% of the women who apply. Those numbers seriously disterb me. I find it hard to believe that the pool of female applicants is that much stronger than the pool of male applicants. I should go look those numbers up for some other schools.

Made public: October 30, 2002

Where did I hear this?

In this society of people, when a couple got married their neighbors would help them build a house and help them make the roof out of these big giant leaves. If the union was ever dissolved, the couple would tear down the leaves as a sort of public display. One day a husband and wife got into a big argument and one thing led to another and they began to rip down the leaves. They were both upset and crying and didn't want to be doing it, but by this point the whole village was watching. When they were almost done, the man said, "You were right, dear. These leaves could really use a wash." And they took them down to the river and washed them and set them out to dry and put the roof back on their house. There was an anthropologist watching all this, and he asked his friend how often people washed the roof-leaves. The friend said, "never."

I wish I remember where I heard this. I think it was this summer. It might have been part of one of the summer staffer talks. Or maybe it was from something my parents were reading when I was at home. Anybody know?