Stretching the boundaries of my comfort zone
I have been lucky enough through my time at Mount Holyoke to experience a variety of research and internship experiences.
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Ariela Schnyer ’16
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I have been lucky enough through my time at Mount Holyoke to experience a variety of research and internship experiences.
Professors at MHC showed me it was possible to balance career and family.
Learning about many facets of dance opened my eyes to a range of possibilities and prepared me to take on each opportunity I encountered.
“At Mount Holyoke, I learned that wherever I am, if I have passion for what I’m doing, I have the power to foster the things I care about most.”
“The independent research I conducted on the black-house community in Chicago for my senior thesis through Lynk funding helped me see that I could manage a research project from beginning to end.”
Mount Holyoke students visit Washington, D.C., and find inspiration from alums to explore careers in public service.
Music was just a hobby for Bingyao Liu ’19. Then she came to Mount Holyoke, founded the area’s first Chinese music ensemble and discovered klezmer music.
Political ecologist Catherine Corson took her three student interns to the World Conservation Conference in Hawaii to study global environmental politics.
Undeterred as a woman in the heavily male fields of physics and engineering, Shehzeen Hussain ’14 wants to meld the two to solve community energy problems.
Carrie Mae Weems was the Leading Woman in the Arts in 2014. She held a public lecture titled “Art and Humanity” and took part in a Student Leadership and Careers Luncheon