Where have all the juniors gone?

If you are one of the (many) students who has interviewed with me over the past week or so, I have a confession to make: I am not ready for you yet.  You've decided, very sensibly, that the summer before your senior year is a fine time to start your college search process.  You're asking about regular decision deadlines and essay questions and first-year housing, and I hope I'm giving you rational responses.  But what I'm thinking is, "Heavens to Murgatroid, you're a senior already?"  Because, you see, you're applying to the Class of 2016.  And according to my memory, we admitted the Class of 2015 approximately yesterday.  When did all this growing up and graduating happen?

This is all a lead-in to say that I am very sorry for my lack of recent blog posts, but summer has not yet settled down into a normal routine.  We've had a well-fed staff retreat, interviewed job candidates, escorted 80 middle school students through the labyrinthine basement hallways . . . and to top it all off, apparently there are rising seniors who want to apply to Mudd next year.  This year.  Yipes!

My vacation to balmy, beautiful New Jersey starts Monday and I hope two weeks is enough for my poor kerfuffled brain to make the transition from the Class of 2015 to the Class of 2016.  It's also very possible that by the time I return, this will be gone:

Yup.  Exciting times here in Claremont!