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my view from the library today that helped even just a tiny bit to ease the pain of hours upon hours of homework.

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My school has the most harmonious contemporary and old school architecture that you will ever see

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Oh Mount Holyoke, you’ve done it again.

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Today was such a gr8 day!! I was cast in a dance piece and ukechamp is in acapella!! The weather is cool!! I saw a dog!! Plus look at these convocation pics!! Keep it up @ god!!

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god……….. i hope not?

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views from the library

[victoriaringsinyourears]

HEY MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE STUDENTS! 

Do YOU like video games? And I mean ANY video games – Halo, Mario, Kim Kardashian Hollywood (we won’t judge), League? Do you have a preference to romance rogue pirates over pigeons? Do you have hype over Pokemon Go, or are grinning because you’re already an Ingress expert? 

This semester we’re excited to be starting Autosave, the Mount Holyoke Video Game Club*! We’re hoping to bring you regular gaming nights, themed nights, tournaments, esports streaming, and more. 

Come check us out at the Org Fair! Our officers will be there and we’re all excited to meet you! If you can’t be there, message me and I’ll put you on the mailing list. 

See you there! 

*(We’re required to say we’re still in the registration process, though very VERY close to finishing.)

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Library

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abc’s of MHC

Abbey Chapel: home of Vespers, meditation groups, Monster Ball, and much more. 

Buckland: half of Abbey-Buck, and in my mind the best brunch on campus   

Convocation: class colors, drums, processions, singing, what else could you want for the opening of the school year?? 

Drag Ball: One of the best parties; drag kings, drag queens, and drag inbetweens 

Equestrian Center: where I spent most of my time at MHC. 

Frances Perkins Scholars: actually the best people ever 

Gracious Dinner: when normal dinner becomes themed, and local with fancy cloth napkins

HOLYOKE: our battle cry 

Ice Hockey: s/o to Nellie ( irishsaints)  and JK 

Johnny’s: the go to restaurant when family is in town. 

Kendade v.  Kendall: brain power v. muscle power 

Labs: used to be a mandatory thing until requirements changed 

Milk & Cookies: possibly one of the best tradition on campus. 9:30 snack!

No Study Zone: a place to blow off steam before finals

Outing Club: Literally the biggest club on campus. 

Project Theatre: my family (aka a student run theatre group, aka the best humans)

Quiet Areas: places in the library where they told us not to talk, but we did anyways. 

Reese: spent a lot of time here, it was originally built to house animal labs on the lower levels

Skinner Green: for sunning, and reading, and running away from responsibilities  while lounging in the adirondack chairs

Talcott Greenhouse: one of the most beautiful places on campus, especially during a snow storm

Unusual Suspects: MHC’s improv troupe 

Very musical: with five a cappella groups, three choirs, Symphony Orchestra, Big Band, and Jazz Ensembles (and a lot more); MHC is a vv musical place  

Williston/Smith Library: where I spent most like 70% of the time. Also playing man hunt after hours. Perhaps my favorite memory.  

Xtra curriculars: DO ALL THE THINGS! 

Y: Particularly the Big Y, the closest grocery store

Zzzz: all the naps I took. ALL THE NAPS

also Chef Jeffs and Mountain Day

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Campus - Fall 2014

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Life advice from one of my favorite professors, given during a class lecture:

You’ll be fine; you will graduate, and the walls will break down. You will leave the seminary and you will rejoice because the world will embrace you. And you will have a job and a career and a beautiful apartment, and the twenties will pass. And your car will break down and the person you invested in is nowhere to be found and the bank account is more in the red than in the black, and your landlord is knocking on the door, they’re going to kick you out for not paying the bills. And this is after you and your friends drove around picking up all the furniture off the sidewalk that other tenants threw out, and you had such a wonderful time decorating your beautiful apartment, and they’re beautiful; they’re beautiful from one angle but there’s something in furniture called a spring which is either missing or sticking out. And it turns out you need to have your wisdom teeth out or your hair fell out overnight, and so the twenties don’t go how you planned and maybe the thirties will be different.

[pheenemo]

If you’re a tad nervous ‘bout choosing a college roommate clap your hands

[cthulucy]

looking through roommate profiles on mount holyoke’s housing site, it almost feels like a dating site omfg

Any other new yellow sphinxes out there also looking for roommates?

[mountholyoke]

me: complains about school food all semester

me: shamelessly recreates blanch sandwiches over breaks

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Mount Holyoke through the seasons

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Say hello to the first issue of a potential new MHC Archives zine series – Collection Spotlight! First up, the Dante materials.

There is a lot of cool stuff down in the Archives, and our collections are really amazing. However, as a student it can be difficult and intimidating to figure out just what we have, and how to get to it. Hopefully, zines like these will tell you (with cool activities and rad pictures) more about a specific topic, so that you can be informed and enthused!

Within these little pages is a bit of background on how the collection came to be, some details on what it contains and its extent, and lots of fun illustrations all taken from the Dante books that we have here. There’s even a crossword on the back, and some extras on the inverse side.

To get one, stop by the Mount Holyoke Archives & Special Collections, M/F, 9:30am-noon & 1-4:30pm.

IMPORTANT NOTE! This is a pretty new idea, so we’re open to feedback! Questions that we have are:

Since it’s summer and most of you aren’t around campus, we’re willing to make a PDF so that you can print one yourself, or just read it on your computer. Drop us an ask or e-mail [email protected] if this is something that interests you!

What sort of Collection Spotlights do YOU want to see? Which materials would you like to know more about?