<p>I could not help but notice that the lead article (in the box to the right of the letter) is the announcement than an alumna just won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship - the “genius grant.”</p>
<p>Just to add to the voices here: my daughter LOVES, LOVES, LOVES Smith. (Is that the right amount of emphasis, Laurel?) Yes, she hasn’t made huge connections to the women living in her house, so instead, she spends most of her time at another house, where a lot of her friends live. Academics? That’s hard to tell in the first semester. I do know that education is largely what you make of it, and that an intelligent student will always excel, even in a less than perfect intellectual environment. </p>
<p>The women who attend Smith make it special.</p>