Mount Holyoke Research Paper
My love affair with Mount Holyoke began quite innocuously, as many loves do. Exactly two years ago I received some mailings from the college—I originally began liking the school because of my intended major. However, in the last two years, I have found all the more reasons to deepen my adoration of Mount Holyoke College. The liberty of a liberal arts education will not only allow me to focus on my intended major but will also allow me to broaden my horizons to discover new areas of interest. My academic career at Mount Holyoke will be a drastic change from my high school career. Studying at Mount Holyoke College would be similar to discovering new land. I would arrive with purpose: the study of language will be my Plymouth Rock, my joy, but
all the bounty of the land is still at my fingertips, from physics to sociology to economics—I will be free to enrich my life with all Mount Holyoke has to offer.
Quite simply, Mount Holyoke will allow a student like myself to deepen my academic curiosity. Mount Holyoke allows students to gratify their academic and social lives with subjects that they truly engage with, unhindered by rigidity—thus leading to not only a happier student body but a student body that truly values sincere intellectual curiosity, independence and passion. This is a student body I would undoubtedly love to be a part of. While my degree may someday proclaim an expertise in linguistics and education, what I really want to do is retain knowledge in as many forms as possible. I’ve unbolted myself, open to the meat of the world, sweeping up all the rich morsels it has to offer me, digesting crumbs of varying flavors; perhaps science, maybe music, but the taste I mostly crave is language. Language, whole and firm, seamlessly links all of humanity together. And yet it stands alone too, a discipline in and of itself. I do not wish to selfishly devour this information—with education, I can reciprocate, giving to others what the world gave to me. I am interested in far more than just simply understanding how words work. What intrigues me, is the culmination of this give and take. I am in hopes of someday being able to help someone who is foreign to the English language, read this paragraph as easily as you are.
all the bounty of the land is still at my fingertips, from physics to sociology to economics—I will be free to enrich my life with all Mount Holyoke has to offer.
Quite simply, Mount Holyoke will allow a student like myself to deepen my academic curiosity. Mount Holyoke allows students to gratify their academic and social lives with subjects that they truly engage with, unhindered by rigidity—thus leading to not only a happier student body but a student body that truly values sincere intellectual curiosity, independence and passion. This is a student body I would undoubtedly love to be a part of. While my degree may someday proclaim an expertise in linguistics and education, what I really want to do is retain knowledge in as many forms as possible. I’ve unbolted myself, open to the meat of the world, sweeping up all the rich morsels it has to offer me, digesting crumbs of varying flavors; perhaps science, maybe music, but the taste I mostly crave is language. Language, whole and firm, seamlessly links all of humanity together. And yet it stands alone too, a discipline in and of itself. I do not wish to selfishly devour this information—with education, I can reciprocate, giving to others what the world gave to me. I am interested in far more than just simply understanding how words work. What intrigues me, is the culmination of this give and take. I am in hopes of someday being able to help someone who is foreign to the English language, read this paragraph as easily as you are.