THE CORE It’s steeped in tradition, constantly evaluated, endlessly rel- evant, and it’s like nothing you’ve experienced in high school. It’s a suite of classes—in chemistry and computer science, mathematics and model- ing, physics and biology, engineering and the humanities, social sciences and the arts—designed to give you a scientist’s essential tools: a thorough grounding in the foundational knowledge of the field; hands-on experience in fundamental skills and applications; and a broad understanding of the context in which science is practiced. It’s also a bonding experience: you and your entering class will take it together, so you’ll talk about it, work on it, sweat it out together, and as you move through the rest of the curriculum (the rest of your life, actually), you’ll have it with you as a reference and a guide. It basically turns you into a human Swiss Army knife: exceedingly well-built, endlessly adaptable, totally indispensable.
ADVISING At some point, you realize that science is a community endeavor. Even if you’re brilliant and self-sufficient and capable of producing extraordinarily sophis- ticated work (and you are, you are!), you won’t do it alone. This is a long way of saying that we have a comprehensive advising system, formal and informal. The formal system includes the associ- ate dean for academic affairs—a kind of all-purpose adviser who ensures that the HMC workload is sanely distributed—and a series of advisers to help you along the way: a first-year adviser, an adviser in your major, in the humanities, social sciences and the arts pro- gram, and in your research
projects or Clinic work. The informal system is the network of relationships you’ll develop with professors, administrators and staff—good people who keep their doors open, like to listen, and know how to help you find academic and professional resources and yet more people who can help.
FACULTY You could read about their research interests in the departmental descriptions to follow; you could recall our low student-to-faculty ratio; you could skim our website and notice the teaching awards they’ve won, the major research grants they’ve secured, the groundbreaking work they’ve done. You could imagine (and you’d be right) that we hired them not because they’re an- tisocial geniuses who loathe teaching, but because they’re some of the coun- try’s premier researchers. They love their work, love sharing it with students, and believe that undergraduate education is the fountainhead of meaningful work in the sciences.
COUNSELING We take care of each other. Our academic advising system starts with a program for first-year stu- dents that pairs them with faculty who share their interests. Our Academic Excellence program and our Writing Center encourage students to work together to improve their assignments. A full-time emotional health counselor serves HMC students exclusively, with additional support available through The Claremont Colleges’ Monsour Counseling Center. The Dean of Stu- dents Office runs a bunch of programs designed to make your life richer, including Friday Forums, a chance for the community to come together to talk about Mudd and the world beyond it.
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