the best technical school you've
It's a small science and engineering college in Claremont, CA (about 30 miles east of Los Angeles) and a member of the Claremont Colleges. I say "science and engineering" mostly to pacify the few chemists, physicists and biologists out here. Granted, I am an engineer and thus slightly biased. The other programs do have great profs and excellent courses, but they're just not as large as the engineering and CS majors at Mudd.
Being overrun by engineers and computer scientists (picture that for a moment), Mudd has a very, uh, distinct personality. We're both normal and very, very strange at the same time. Imagine pockets of circus acts mixing with the general population, and then add to that image a few unicyclists and chemists just for fun. Then you've got something pretty close to Mudd. And imagine all this set in a '60s-built campus where the basic architectural unit is a concrete adornment known as a "wart."
Not to say that it's not a fun place. You can certainly find pockets of normalcy around, but at the same time there are people building rail guns, figuring out how to get even more power from their speakers, and even a few doing homework during the day. It's a good mix of psychopaths and people too smart for the collective good of society.
And if that wasn't enough, they make us take lots of humanities classes. So you've got really technical-minded people with the knowledge to do lots of bad things who can speak eloquently enough to convince you that the bad things they're doing aren't so bad after all. It's a bad combination.
