PS: Just back from Amherst. Beautiful countryside campus. Looks like a fine school academically. The young tour guide - Econometrics/CS double major; stepson plans to major in Math so a good match - was an absolutely wonderful ambassador for his school and its mission.
And I totally saw all of the, well, Evil of which you and Mr. V3 warned me.
Sure is a beautiful countryside campus. Mount Holyoke has that as well (but not for your boy). Spent many happy hours in the Phi Gamma Chi house (w. the not-yet Mr. V3)--the white Greek "temple" upon the hill. immediately uphill from Emily Dickinson's home. V. glad you saw the other side clearly. Thx for message!
Not that I think it's in the running but the 5 colleges are now a consortium and students can take a class - even at Holyoke or Smith - if they don't offer it at Amherst, although I imagine UMass is leveraged in this way the most.
I was impressed to know that Dickinson - the first woman undergrad at Amherst - and Robert Frost and Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal's my Fave Prez of all time) are also alums.
ThereтАЩs some revisionism there, I am sure. Emily D was a student at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. Amherst did not permit females back then. The 5-College Consortium was in place before my sophomore year, as I took Catullus at Amherst , Sept тАШ69(and had to run from return bus to zoology class. Frost was in place when Mr. V3 was student, He agrees w. you on Silent Cal, fwiw.
PS: Just back from Amherst. Beautiful countryside campus. Looks like a fine school academically. The young tour guide - Econometrics/CS double major; stepson plans to major in Math so a good match - was an absolutely wonderful ambassador for his school and its mission.
And I totally saw all of the, well, Evil of which you and Mr. V3 warned me.
2nd thought--you were there outside of term time and saw the rot!
LOL I suggested that to the fam.
Sure is a beautiful countryside campus. Mount Holyoke has that as well (but not for your boy). Spent many happy hours in the Phi Gamma Chi house (w. the not-yet Mr. V3)--the white Greek "temple" upon the hill. immediately uphill from Emily Dickinson's home. V. glad you saw the other side clearly. Thx for message!
Not that I think it's in the running but the 5 colleges are now a consortium and students can take a class - even at Holyoke or Smith - if they don't offer it at Amherst, although I imagine UMass is leveraged in this way the most.
I was impressed to know that Dickinson - the first woman undergrad at Amherst - and Robert Frost and Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal's my Fave Prez of all time) are also alums.
ThereтАЩs some revisionism there, I am sure. Emily D was a student at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. Amherst did not permit females back then. The 5-College Consortium was in place before my sophomore year, as I took Catullus at Amherst , Sept тАШ69(and had to run from return bus to zoology class. Frost was in place when Mr. V3 was student, He agrees w. you on Silent Cal, fwiw.
LOL well, they did stretch that a bit.