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Bring It On
1,460. This is the approximate number of days I have spent as a student of Mount Holyoke College, including my time abroad (because you can take the girl out of Mount Holyoke, but you can't take Mount Holyoke out of the girl). There has not been one day I have not been in love with this school. Not one.…
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More than a 401(k)
Redefining Happiness
Someone out there must want to hire me, and I want to be ready. Someone will call up and offer me my future and then I'll have to respond with a "Yes!" or "No" within a certain range of time, a range that feels like it can never be long enough to answer all the questions running through my mind.…
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The Definite Article
Tila Tequila, PhD
Recently premiering on MTV was "A Shot at Love II," Tila Tequila's second attempt at love and extended residency in a pink and blue mansion. Wearing gold booty shorts, the 4'11" MySpace star laughed huskily in the face of the first season's heartbreak and brainstormed several new ways to get attractive people out of their clothes and camera-ready.…
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Confessions on the Confessional
Much has already been said about the Mount Holyoke Confessional and how damaging it is to our community. We talk about the cattiness of the posts and the hateful messages left on the site for anyone to read. Even though I think all of that is true, I believe the real problem of the Confessional is that it reveals something ugly about Mount Holyoke-nobody talks to one another about problems at the school.…
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Taking Trash Out Of Holyoke
Beyond the gates of Mount Holyoke College and across the Connecticut River is the historically and culturally rich city of Holyoke. The census of 2000 indicates that 41 percent of Holyoke residents are of Latino decent and almost one-third live below the poverty level. Although this so-called "gateway city" is in the process of urban and civic revitalization, its industrial past has left in its wake a host of social, economic and ecological problems.…
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