<p>hey guys. I got accepted in Class of 2013 at Moho.
The school pays most of the tuition for me but anyway, i was really frustrated that it is a girls' school. Lol.
So im jsut wondering abt the environment there and the social life. Ive heard lots of complaints abt the social like how there are not a lot of aprties and how the location is vvery isolated and so on.... </p>
<p>but anyway,,, i still wanna know more. I'll probably visit sum time during April. So is this really isolated and boring there? Like the school still have the Consortium with Amherst and Umass i believe... I'm very desperate, coz if i go to Moho, i dunt want to doom my life or sumthing like several ppl said. </p>
<p>i believe there's still some fun going around. </p>
<p>(My mom is still logged in, but this is her daughter writing.)</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard (I’m also a member of the Class of 2013), there are plenty of opportunities to meet men, if that’s what you’re concerned about. Furthermore, the social life seems to be abundant; there’s always something (theatre productions, music, presentations, etc.) happening on campus. Check out the calendar if you’d like to see what kinds of events are going on. </p>
<p>Everyone that I met while visiting insisted that it is simple to keep a balance between school and social life, and the huge number of clubs and organizations (not to mention the course load) will make it easy to stay busy/involved.</p>
<p>Also, regarding South Hadley’s isolation, it’s apparently easy to get to any of the other Five Colleges by shuttle bus, which I’ve heard is really convenient and simple to use. So I would surmise that it’s not as though us MoHos will be stuck in the middle of nowhere, limiting our social interaction to our fellow classmates.</p>
<p>Hey, firsties! Welcome! You get to be Green Griffins…I’m jealous. :)</p>
<p>In brief, no, it’s nowhere near as bad as you seem to be imagining. South Hadley’s a suburb of Chicopee and Springfield, both large cities, and Amherst and Northampton are right up the road. There’s free bus service to the other colleges, as well as the downtown areas, the shopping malls, and so forth. And there’s CONSTANT programming on campus, so very few students feel the need to get off campus on the weekends. Unless you’re someone who needs to be in a city environment all the time to be happy, you shouldn’t have any problems here. I think you’ll be surprised when you get here and discover that South Hadley is just another town like anywhere else, and not one still going through the Dust Bowl. ;)</p>
<p>I agree with mhc2011. I was at Mhc for my first year (06/07) - I left, but plan to return in the spring. Anyway, when I was there, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had expected it to be. The all women factor didn’t really matter to me because frankly I saw guys on campus and in my classes a good amount of the time. Blanchard parties usually attract a lot of them and my friend has met her boyfriend of three years now thru one of them. In terms of being a party school, Mhc def is not one. My friends who were used to partying/clubbing a ton were sad their first year. They started going to parties at Amherst but quickly grew tired of it. I think the social life at Mhc is fine. There’s always something to do, even if u have to make an effort and make your own fun. IMO, the time I spent with my friends renting movies and watching them in empty classrooms on the projectors, hiking, going to dinner in Amherst and cooking with them in the dorm kitchens is totally exciting and way more exciting than being followed by drunk frat boys (the experience I had when I went to my first and only off-campus party w them my first yr-LOL)… But that’s just me! :)</p>
<p>I agree with the last two posts: MHC isn’t a party school by any standard, but there’s SOOOO much to do! And there are certainly parties to be found, you may just have to make friends with the people who throw them. But really, you’ll have way more fun (and keep the Freshman 15 off, and get better grades, etc.) if you don’t party every weekend, but spend time watching movies/going to dinner in South Hadley, Amherst, or Northampton/walking around campus together! Ends up being way more fun than the frats or the Amherst dorms!</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ve warmed the hearts of more than few parents. Although, I know a number of MHC women that met their future husbands via the Amherst College dorms. ;)</p>
<p>My daughter’s seem a little old-fashioned in the sense they don’t like the “hooking-up” culture of their day and although they have guys as friends, wouldn’t want the casual sleeping around you see so often. When they asked a young woman who went to another women’s college about meeting men, she said there are many chances at bars, frat parties, etc and many women find dates for the night, etc. When she said, I mean a relationship before graduating, she looked perplexed, with more casual hook-ups being more the norm.
I reminded her of many students we know that met husbands and wives at co-ed and women’s colleges and behavior of some isn’t behavior of many. I agree though that it might be harder to be friends with men when your only exposure is outside of your college, but there are many other aspects to think about.</p>
You get to be Green Griffins…I’m jealous. :)</p>