First is DOS, the Dean Of Students office. Dean Chris (also known as Dean Fun at times) hires his "DOS Muchachos" to aid in planning study breaks and events for the student body. Things they get up to include $2 tickets to the midnight release showing of movie X ($5 if you go IMax, I think), water fights in the quad on Friday afternoon, "s'mores on wheels" rolling through the dorms in the evenings during winter, and the "Indiana Jones Interactive Experience" projected on the enormous blow-up screen (think bounce castle, but with a screen) in the quad complete with giant rubber ball covered in brown paper chasing a student in an Indiana Jones hat through the audience.
Next up we have CAP, the Committee for Activities Planning. This committee subsidizes off-campus activities such as movies, concerts, and trips to Disneyland. If you want to do something fun but think it costs just a bit too much, go to CAP and they'll probably offer to subsidize it if you can scrounge up about 10 interested students.
For faculty-student interaction, the Leonard Fund is hard to beat. This fund will pay for up to $8 a person for up to 8 students eating out with a faculty member. The most notable use of this was spring semester 2007 when a group of my friends would go to Jack in the Box every Wednesday night at around 3am with Professor Bob Schaffer. He could almost be a CS prof with those hours.
Finally, one of the nicest amenities and perhaps the least touted is the summer storage. Each dorm has a storage room or two that residents can use to store their stuff over the summer when they're off campus. Mudd also orders in a bunch of "storage pods" which are plywood boxes that are left on campus in the weeks leading up to graduation that are then carted off to some secure storage facility. Most other colleges and universities that I've heard about do not do anything like this, leaving their students to either rent public storage or cart everything back home/to their summer housing (whatever that may be).
~KMarsh
For faculty-student interaction, the Leonard Fund is hard to beat. This fund will pay for up to $8 a person for up to 8 students eating out with a faculty member. The most notable use of this was spring semester 2007 when a group of my friends would go to Jack in the Box every Wednesday night at around 3am with Professor Bob Schaffer. He could almost be a CS prof with those hours.
Finally, one of the nicest amenities and perhaps the least touted is the summer storage. Each dorm has a storage room or two that residents can use to store their stuff over the summer when they're off campus. Mudd also orders in a bunch of "storage pods" which are plywood boxes that are left on campus in the weeks leading up to graduation that are then carted off to some secure storage facility. Most other colleges and universities that I've heard about do not do anything like this, leaving their students to either rent public storage or cart everything back home/to their summer housing (whatever that may be).
~KMarsh
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