 The community here is absolutely amazing. Mount Holy truly equips you with that courage, with that confidence that you need in the world today and in society today. It's a really incredible experience to be learning around so many driven and intelligent women. And being able to be a part of that community and the learning and growth that comes with that is something that you can only get here. Being on this campus every day I have felt empowered to become a better student and to try different things, try new things. And I think that's really the benefit of going to a liberal arts college. Our professors and our students really teach you how to think and how to absorb new ideas and how to explore new topics and interests. The classroom experience here at Mount Holyoke is very supportive. It's very collaborative. I think that it's a support for the application of what makes you passionate and what's going to get you further. You're here to learn how you interact with academia and how you grow. You don't have to go abroad to experience the world here at Mount Holyoke. When you come to a classroom, there are international students, first generation students. You'll see people from pretty much everywhere here and they all bring their own experiences. They all bring their own talents and abilities. Everybody's really striving towards the common goal of education and learning how to change the world around them for the better. I'm definitely becoming a better version of myself every single day. You have all those resources that really give you the chance to think for yourself and really think about what you want to do. Mount Holyoke has taught me that it is far more important to speak up for oneself and to speak up for others than it is to follow the status quo. It's pushing people to think about themselves in a new way. It's also showing people that not only can they do amazing things, but that they can have an amazing community around them that will help them achieve those things. That's kind of the biggest difference that Mount Holyoke has made for me.