Mount Holyoke

Not unlike any other PVTA ride, my experience began with sprinting to catch the bus on time. Fortunately since the bus costs $1.25 to get anywhere, other Mount Holyoke students are busy trying to deposit their quarters or stuff their crumpled dollar bills into the machine so I had time to catch my breath before taking a seat. As the bus began meandering through South Hadley it almost felt like a suburban environment to a larger town. And I noticed the crowd was quite diverse compared to the…

The only reason college students in the Pioneer Valley take a trip to Holyoke is for the mall, not even located in the downtown core. This is the only economic activity as evident by even a simple stroll through the center square. With few name brand stores, coffee shops, and aesthetically pleasing buildings, Holyoke looks like it is on it’s way to becoming a ghost town since it has not yet recovered from the post-industrial crash. The economy has not diversified and looked attractive to new…

[Hed:] Digging Deep [Dek:] How the discovery of one small dino might have been the biggest thing to happen to women in paleontology. [Byline:] —Kristen Desmond LeFevre, Indiana Podokesaurus Holyokensis (meaning “swift-footed lizard from Holyoke”) roamed the Connecticut Valley during the early Jurassic period 190 to 174 million years ago, leaving its footprints in the soft, reddish mud that hardened into sandstone over time. The dinosaur was about the size of a large house cat, with formidable…

Emily Dickinson: “I felt a Funeral in my Brain.” Have you ever felt an overwhelming sense of sadness or depression? How would you express yourself if you did? Some people use words as an expression and it can be noted as an art form. In the 1800’s, a young teenage girl named Emily Dickinson began composing, revising, and documenting a series of many poems. Between 1858-1865 was eventful time in history, the Civil War. Although this period in time was tragic, Emily Dickinson continued…

Holyoke College due to the UMass Amherst EMT course cancellation at the beginning of the semester. It is a hassle for me commuting back and forth from UMass to Mount. Holyoke College during the week, but the result is rewarding that I can practice in the pre-hospital medical field after completing the national registry exam. It is intriguing…

Dickinson graduated from the academy on 1847. The following year she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary at South Hadley. It is not known when Dickinson began to write poetry. Only five poems can be dated prior to 1858”. (Encyclopedia.com.) “Emily Norcross Dickinson, a timid woman. Dickinson was fun-loving as a child, very smart,…

at a seminary. However, Dickinson only stayed at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a year, giving rise to speculation and rumors. Many argue that is was at this time that Emily’s reclusiveness began to show, while others believe that it was Emily’s fathers wish that she not return to school. Whatever the reason Emily did not return to Holyoke, and when the time came for her younger sister to go to seminary her family sent her to Ipswich and not Mount…

parents expected her to go to college. Once in college, Mount Holyoke, she was encouraged to take the hardest courses given since she excelled in her studies therefore, she majored in physics with a minor in biology and chemistry. Even though she was focused on science she was greatly impacted by her American economic history Professor Annah May Soule who required her students to visit “the mills along the Connecticut River in neighboring Holyoke to observe working conditions there” and what…

According to Dickinson ‘We meet no stranger but ourself’. It is the time that we spend alone that allows us as humans to reflect most on who we are and what we want to achieve in this world. Only in silence can one truly sit and focus only on him or herself, away from the noise of the outside world and its conventions. This essay will discuss the concept of identity in relation to the poet herself and her poetry. In doing this the essay will further include discussion on the historical context…

non-gender binary students and students that are able to graduate if they are female at enrollment but then make the switch to male while at the campus. The schools surveyed were: Mount Holyoke College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College Hollins University, and Mills College. Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr College both had gender policies that accepted all four categories, while others such as Wellesley, Smith and…