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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] English  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright MHC was a wonderful, enriching experience for me, a roller coaster of feeling enclosed, stressed, crazy, in love with and absolutely detesting the place. What a school should be perhaps? It pushed and pulled me, changing my views and exposing me to other ideas while always encouraging thought and reading. Graduating from an undergraduate program, one may feel critical, desperate to get away from those further years in school and unsure whether the time, the stress and the investment was worth it. However, down the road, you find you get hired for a job and little did you realize it but you'd been interviewed because the boss likes MHC, has respect for it, wants people on his staff that he can say attended universities of such stature. It's a superfluous reason to get one's foot in the door, but I will take it over not being interviewed anyday. I also felt leaving MHC that it had given me a confidence that I did not know I had needed previously. You are catered to, you are encouraged to think, to question, to take your own research farther if you wish to, and that is a wonderful & exceptional way to be treated in this day and age. Sure, it is a bit of a fantasy to think that every MHCer will and can do great things--but perhaps they can and will? Regardless, they will be given a few years where they are told that is possible. But I am a writer, I'd say a sort of anomaly for MHC, and sometimes felt that way there. Yet I also felt encouraged by the Eng dept staff while a student, to keep plugging away at what now look like silly immature texts, and yet over time I came to author a few books, and hope more are en route. Not only did I have the opportunity to study under great writers (Joseph Brodsky was there, and Michael Petit was a key figure for me at the time, as well as taking advantage of the MFA program over at UMASS, going to their readings, meeting students and faculty, listing to the authors they invited to the valley), but the thorough background in English lit, from its origins to the present, via survey and then seminar courses, has continued to be invaluable to me as I write, teach lit, and continue to gain more insight into texts studied at and after MHC. I of course also made great friends, many of whom I keep in touch with now and again, depite the fact we live in different countries. And would I be living in a different country had I not gone to MHC? Never. I took that junior year abroad and then kept going with it, and have now lived in 3 countries and visited a dozen or so more. Being an Iowa girl, the idea of getting out of the US borders seemed a long shot as a child, in fact unthinkable, and yet MHC provided the encouragement and opportunity to see the world, and now I teach at some of the top schools in France. If hesitating because of the "all-women" question, there will never be a better space to explore what it means to live separately, as in next door, to the "other gender". To ask questions about whether such a division is still relevant in our age, and to reflect on the place of men and women in each of our lives. Men flock to the campus, and there are 5 schools in the valley for social time, so you won't feel like you have been locked up away from the world in any case, so give it a go if you are a student considering this. For me, who have gone on to co-ed schools and who teach in an almost all male school at the moment, it was interesting to have had the MHC experience and to realize how we women interact with each other when not around men all the time. Overall, MHC relmains a positive experience, and a place where I met some of the brightest women I have spent time with. Starting Job: Professor Lille III Univ, Preparedness: A, Reputation: A+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) May 18 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=47080&uid=587'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Chemical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'll be going into my senior year at MoHo soon, so I figure that I should give some advice to offset the whiners here. First of all, NOT everyone at the school is rich--on the contrary, around 1/4 people come from households that earn less than $40,000/year. Secondly, straight females exist here! I'm one of them, and I can assure you that it's not a lesbian-or-die atmosphere. Yes, there are a lot of faux-bis-and-lesbians, but as long as you find your group, you'll be fine. Party girls be warned, though: boys from other schools WILL take advantage of you if you're not careful. Just relax and LEARN! Finally and most importantly, keep in mind that this is, without a question, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country. The faculty and classes are all excellent, and there are very few better biochemistry programs on the East Coast. Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: D- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 17 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=47066&uid=587'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Unknown  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright Mount Holyoke might be the ideal college for a young lady who is simply looking for a lovely, safe, quiet place to make good lifelong female friends, play sports, and engage in serious study in the liberal arts or sciences before going on to graduate school or to marriage to a man she has already met elsewhere. It is far less desirable for ladies who also need to work their way through college, or who must begin to support themselves upon graduation, or who are counting on college as the place to meet husbands. While such thing do happen at Mount Holyoke, and might well happen to you, the odds are against it. If you need to work your way thgough college, you're better off in a place where there is work to be had. If you will have to start supporting yourself and paying student loans upon gratuation, you need to learn a marketable skill before you graduate. If your family is not going to find a good husband for you, you will need to find him for yourself. You're better off spending your days in a place where suitable men can find you. Where is that? Where can you find work? Where can you learn a marketable skill? Where can suitable men see you? I don't know. But it probably isn't at Mount Holyoke. If you need those things, look elsewhere! Campus Aesthetics: A+, Surrounding City: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 02 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=44901&uid=587'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Industrial Design  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant Mount Holyoke College is one of the worse college that I have encountered in my life. people say the campus is beatiful but is is disgusting. This campus is design for people who love nature and a rural oasis. There is nothing fun to do in this campus besides doing worik. There are a lot of weird and competitive people that you grow to hate. The teachers are great and friendly. This is the worse experience of my whole life. Do not come here if you have not seen this ugly campus that has nothing to offer. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Innovation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 24 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2004    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=44702&uid=587'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ... 16    Next

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