Is Mt Holyoke good?

kuredzz
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:35:37 +0000

I think the word “challenging” can be very subjective. I find MHC to be equally interesting and challenging and spend on average 6 hours a week doing schoolwork, and do 9-10 a couple of times a week. I am currently abroad at the most prestigious college in the area. The work here is “harder” in the sense there is a lot more of it, but it’s almost exclusively busy work, and summarizing. The work is also harder because they do grade on a scale, and half the class will earn less than a C. However, I find myself being silently outraged at how concepts are taught at such a simplistic level and how non challenging the work is despite the fact that amount of it. I spend more time memorizing facts, and no time analyzing concepts or criticizing. Many students of similarly ranked LAC, and large private universities refer to the work as challenging or hard, yet I just find it burdensome and simplistic. It is much easier for me to do better at Mount Holyoke, yet the actual coursework is more challenging and I find the education at Mount Holyoke to be incomparable.