<p>Mount Holyoke seems like the perfect place for me, but I'm quite worried about social life on campus. It seems that the biggest complaint about mt. holyoke is the lack of social life, it also seems to be the reason why people transfer. From what I've heard, many of those who transfer can't cope with attending a women's college, and the lack of guys lessens the quality of their social life. But being a woman who identifies as queer, what is specifically the queer social scene like on campus?</p>
<p>My understanding is that there is a very robust LGBTQ social scene on campus! Plus, you’re a bus ride from Smith where there is also a vibrant scene. Northampton also has the most lesbians per capita in the U.S., I believe.</p>
<p>NoHo does have the most lesbians per capita…Amherst is #4.
MA has 5 of the top 12 cities with the most lesbians per capita.
Some years ago, 60 Minutes aired a mini documentary about the NoHo lesbian community. It was very well done.</p>
<p>Regardless of orientation (lgbtq or straight) if you select / reject MHC on the basis of social life, you are missing the big picture and potentially making a very expensive mistake. </p>
<p>I would place your question in same category as high school students selecting a college because of an easy party / hook up reputation. </p>
<p>MHC is not a party school (for straight or queer students). That’s not to say that students don’t have fun, attend parties, nurture friendships, and lead full lives. At MHC students learn live and socialize with smart women, international women, athletic women, studious women, hilarious women, talented women, kind women, equestrian women, dancing women some of whom identify as lgbtq. Yes there is portion of women who lead a lgbtq focused life. And I suppose if that’s your mission you’ll find it. However you won’t be getting your money’s worth by limiting yourself to lgbtq activities and containing yourself inside lgbtq circles. IMO</p>
<p>This past week my D, a current student, reported engaging in the following “non-accedemic” actives. Pot luck dinner with her team. PVT to Amherst CVS. Workout at Umass gym (date with Umass student). Small group Q&A associated with major at Amherst. Lecture at MHC co-presented by class mate. New Years in November MHC function. Movie with friends. Laundry and pack for t-giving holiday. All in Addition to writing 2 papers and athletics and student job. She’ll normally attend at least one social function event off campus per week and one to two 5-college activities per week. She does not have a car or a large allowance. </p>
Sunday-Friday is for Learning. Focus.
Friday and Saturday night is for socializing. On and off campus options. The FREE bus to UMass, Amherst, Smith, and Hampshire runs to 2:30am. I don’t hear any complaints from the kids that are going to school there.
Haha, okay as a queer woman on campus I can give you a good answer to this question first-hand. Tbh, disregard what a lot of the others in this thread have said. Our straight social life is 100% lacking. You have to go off campus to find boys and it sucks, majorly. Our queer social life is awesome though. Sports teams that are known for being largely queer - ice hockey, crew, and rugby here - throw good queer parties. There are also parties through orgs like COGA (which is something like the coalition of gender equality…?) and unofficial parties from those members that yes include drugs and alcohol and fun. You can find a good queer party scene almost every weekend. There are hundreds of us here, and we like to have fun too. As far as queer social lives go, Moho is pretty good. It’s hard to find such big concentrated groups of queer kids elsewhere.