Academics: Smith vs. Mt. Holyoke vs. Wellesley?

welles10
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:10:45 +0000

I don’t regret taking any classes that I did. Even if a class was more difficult than I expected to be, I learned a lot from it. There are some classes that I didn’t like very much while I was in the class, but now looking back on that class, I actually really like it and wish that I would have enjoyed it more when I was taking it.

The English department is huge at Wellesley - I know people who can go on and on for days about Prof Rosenwald, Sides, Cain, Wall-Randell, etc. If you are really interested in the English major when you come in as a first-year, you can elect to take the combination Writ 125/ Eng 120 class, which fulfills both your writing requirement and the introduction English class required for the major. Beyond that for English, I think you have to take some classes based in three different time periods and of course, Shakespeare. I can’t tell you much more beyond that since I’m not an English major, but that is what I’ve gathered from my English major friends.