<p>(Though you wouldn't know from the lines in my forehead.)}}</p>
<p>You forget the average age here of the parents is 40++
I'll exchange your lines for mine any day. :)</p>
<p>Good luck with admissions. You certaintly deserve to be admitted.</p>
<p>my teacher went to hampshire and as far as I understand it... it's "Holyoke to wed, smith to bed"...</p>
<p>the MtHo girls are usually the girls that just want a degree and end up just getting married... the 1950s plan... and the Smith girls are the "party girls," but what does that mean in Amherst? ha. Smith girls are cooler basically is what that means.</p>
<p>my teacher went to hampshire and as far as I understand it... it's "Holyoke to wed, smith to bed"...}}</p>
<p>Why would any teacher find it necessary to insult the Smith students body? A Feeling of inadequacy?--lol</p>
<p>I certainly hope the vast majority of Holyoke teachers show more class and decorum than you have experienced with your current prof. Throwing stones when living in a glass house can be dangerous if a bigger stone is returned and with more accuracy.:)</p>
<p>Apparently Holyoke women need a bit more help attracting a suitable husbands than they can with their illustrious minds.</p>
<p>This certaintly isn't how I want my tuition checks spent.</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke girls learn how to bump
and grind from a tenured professor</p>
<p>FWIW- Smith students dont need to get half haked to attract Amherst, or any man, for that matter</p>
<p>Those are the old stereotypes that the college guys used to have. I think that's a major reason why my father was disappointed when I refused to look at Mount Holyoke and then again when my d., after being accepted to MHC, decided she would go to Smith. :-)</p>
<p>BTW, those sayings are at least two generations old.</p>
<p>the MtHo girls are usually the girls that just want a degree and end up just getting married... the 1950s plan... }}</p>
<p>I know not what to say!</p>
<p>(Teacher went to Hampshire)</p>
<p>No need to say anymore, heh???? Party on!</p>
<p>More seriously, I think there would be more MHC students okay with Smith than vice versa: MHC is so bucolic it would have driven my Smithie D nuts...didn't even want me to park the car. Word of mouth suggests that overall, as a generalization, MHC is a bit more of a sheltered experience...which is fine, for thems what is seeking that.</p>
<p>A datum, not necessarily definitive but interesting, would be on the numbers and directions of cross-transfers among the womens colleges.</p>
<p>Word of mouth suggests that overall, as a generalization, MHC is a bit more of a sheltered experience]]</p>
<p>TD, no word of mouth necessary. You and I both had daughters who would't even get out of the car. Gotta tell ya something.</p>
<p>[[A datum, not necessarily definitive but interesting, would be on the numbers and directions of cross-transfers among the womens colleges.]]</p>
<p>For all practical purposes. zip. Transfers are to co-eds or less expensive institutions.</p>
<p>^^^Happy Mothers Day to all those who qualify^^^.</p>
<p>A datum: I am aware of students who have transferred from MHC to Smith. I'm wary of extrapolating from limited data, however.</p>
<p>I am aware of students who have transferred from MHC to Smith]]</p>
<p>Agreed, from time to time a student from either college (S&W) will transfer to Wellesley, Barnard or Bryn Mawr. I should have been clearer. When I said for all practical purposes I meant for statistical purposes the minuscule number who transfer are insignificant.</p>
<p>The interesting number is the number of women transferring <em>in</em> from co-ed colleges.</p>
<p>When I applied to transfer there, I knew my education came first. As for the social life, I figured I was a catch and the boys would find me either way.</p>
<p>I figured I was a catch and the boys would find me either way.]]</p>
<p>LOL-I bet they do. You'll do just fine. </p>
<p>Remember the conversations I told you about with my Holyoke alumnae aunts? There was certainty no dearth of boys available then, and I don't believe there was bus :)</p>
<p>hahahaha</p>
<p>wow that was more response than I expected.</p>
<p>and as for the hampshire-party comment, was that posted by someone from Amherst or UMass that feels belittled by the fact that some kids can have fun and still maintain a high level of intelligence?</p>
<p>I don't even know how that reputation was attained. It's a town with 5 colleges in it... whether or not one school parties more than the others is irrelevent, because regardless, ALL those kids are partying.</p>
<p>I find it so ridiculous that just because a kid has long hair or dreads or wears loosly-fitted clothes renders him/her inferior to the rest of society.</p>
<p>And I know those sayings are "two generations" old, Momwaitingfornew, but that's exactly what they are; "sayings." No more, no less. The little catchy, derogative rhymes weren't more relevent 10 years ago than they are today, because they held little, if any, significance to begin with.</p>
<p>And to the person with the extremely stereotypical Frost allusion for a screen name... Inadequacy?</p>
<p>And to the person with the extremely stereotypical Frost allusion for a screen name... ]]]</p>
<p>What allusion? I guess when youre gabbing at straws any straw will do. Are you thinking of the Frost poem, The Road Not Taken?</p>
<p>Here, Ill give ya a hint where the name came from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684847248/103-8128421-8202252?v=glance&n=283155%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684847248/103-8128421-8202252?v=glance&n=283155</a></p>
<p>From the perspective of an Amherst gentleman:</p>
<p>"Mohos have lots of emotional problems...Smithies on the otherhand are just fun."</p>
<p>interpret away.</p>
<p>Smithies on the otherhand are just fun."]]</p>
<p>What's the Amherst' guys defintion of^ fun^? And I though you were going to bed?</p>
<p>
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and as for the hampshire-party comment, was that posted by someone from Amherst or UMass that feels belittled by the fact that some kids can have fun and still maintain a high level of intelligence?
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That would be me, I guess? And the answer is, neither Amherst or UMass. BTW, have you spent any time at Hampshire? Pretty funky place IMHO! That's not a put-down, as I respect all kinds...but you must admit that the pot smoking reputatiion is earned?!?</p>
<p>Hampshire is very different from MHC, Smith, and Amherst. You can tell as soon as you enter the campus. Not surprisingly, it reminded me more of Skidmore than it did Amherst, MCH, and Smith. </p>
<p>UMass, being a state school, is even more different from the "old school" three.</p>
<p>Yah Hamp is pretty much a rusty playground, the kids are pretty chill, whether thats due to copious amounts of illegal substances or not is another question...(but most would come to class stoned). I like the kids there though, although there's a facade of poor, dirty kids--its really IMHO a bunch of wealthy kids playing out their starving artist/hippie fantasies and having their parents foot the $400,000++ bill.</p>
<p>As to {{What's the Amherst' guys defintion of^ fun^? And I though you were going to bed?}}</p>
<p>Well, what was your def of "fun" back in the day? I'm sure it would be the same ;)....And bed? I'm slowing easing out of a completely nocturnal state from finals week...be easy on me, eh? And I'm glad you gave the wife some attention, she seems pretty cool....but then again one of the only pics I've seen of her is one with an extremely large sombrero on and ....yeah. Those sombreros are in my house now c/o your D.</p>