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December graduates reflect on their decision to graduate early

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“One day, I’m going to just log off of Zoom and be in my bedroom and be alone,” Claire Glover ’21 said. “There's nothing to mark it being over at all.”

Glover is one of a handful of students graduating early from Mount Holyoke College this December rather than finishing their college experience after the traditional spring term. Students can apply to graduate in the fall if they have completed their major and distribution requirements and have enough credits by the end of the term. According to the Office of the Registrar, there are 78 undergraduate students and one graduate student scheduled to complete degree requirements midyear, a 2 percent uptick from previous years.

MHC Literary Magazine Launches Publication

The newest literary magazine at Mount Holyoke, the Mount Holyoke Review, published its first issue on Nov. 12. In celebration, the organization held a publishing party on the same day, during which the editors and founders of the Review spoke and some students read their work aloud.

“We are a place for Mount Holyoke students to submit their writing,” Morgan Sammut ’22, one of the fiction editors of the Review, said. “We mostly do creative works, so a lot of poetry, prose, and we have discussed if we would take essays. We haven’t gotten any of those yet, but we now have things to look forward to.”

The Module System Receives Mixed Responses From Students

The Module System Receives Mixed Responses From Students

For students around the globe, this academic year is proving to be one like no other. For Mount Holyoke students, not only are all classes online this fall, but the entire academic structure has been reimagined. As previously reported by the Mount Holyoke News, on May 14, 2020, former Dean of Faculty Jon Western shared a letter to the Mount Holyoke community outlining the seven-and-a-half-week semester system now used today.

Professors Share Their Experiences From the Start of the Module

Across departments, professors have expressed that they have been feeling stress, anxiety and confusion, but also immense sympathy, for their students this module. Cramming what should have been a semester’s worth of information and growth into seven weeks is a challenge on both sides of the teaching and learning experience.

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