2. Awesome professors. My professors reply emailed questions really fast, like I emailed at 9pm US time and he replied at 11pm US time. On Sunday.
3. More awesome professors. They are always very willing to talk to you and have a lot of different interests. Two of my Caucasian profs have learned Chinese, one of whom had taught English in Taiwan for a year.
4. Awesome students. Yeah, they're all cool people (:
5. Breadth of courses. HMC is part of a consortium (the 5C's) and it's so. amazingly. easy to register and attend courses at the other 4C's. No nonsense to worry about like 'transfer credit', totally seamless. You can learn Arabic or Ballroom Dance or African-American lit.
6. Small class size / cozy environment. My maths lecture is 60 people; most sections (tutorials) average 15. Right from the first year.
7. Pleasant weather. More pleasant than NorCal (e.g. Stanford or Berkeley) Even though you actually /have/ to wear a jacket sometimes. Haha (:
8. Opportunities. Everyone here wants to help you do cool stuff. I've had like three sessions with the career services office, and I'm a freshman -- they're very available!
EDIT: Bonus!
9. Really awesome talks! Yeah, just remembered. Almost every week during the Fall semester, awesome invited speakers gave talks, including Brian Greene, string theorist, and William Kamkwamba, the Malawian student who built a windmill for his village. And Danica McKellar, actress-cum-mathematician, with whom I participated in a dialogue session -- she's really an inspiring role model: Check out her website: KISSMYMATH.COM. Cool no?
And there's colloquium, where professors or people working in industry come to give talks on their area of expertise. I randomly attended the Computer Science colloquium and Dr Randy Wang, who ''distributes digitally recorded live classes to poor children in slum and rural schools in India''. Mudd paid for the CS dept chair, another student, and me to have dinner with Dr Wang.
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