 Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. You got into Mount Holyoke. This is an environment that really invites people to discover so much about themselves and as a student looking to decide where you want to be for the next four years, there is no better community than Mount Holyoke. Within the first week I had friends that I would have dinner with every day. They would be doing incredible things and I would be doing incredible things and we'd be talking about it. This place felt like home immediately because like home is where the heart is and most people find their heart here. They find the things that make them really passionate. They find what guests them up every morning. They find that here. We're all deeply curious people. We all really want to do right by ourselves and by each other and we really want to make change in the world. The legacy of going to a school like Mount Holyoke, which was the first of the Seven Sister Schools, is really empowering. Your professors want to see you do well. They want to see you at your best version of yourself by the time you graduate. The classroom experience isn't super competitive. It's really collaborative and you feel like everyone's really 100% behind you. Being surrounded by people with that mentality is definitely very influential and motivating. And there's just so many opportunities to do different things that you're interested in and to try out new things that you might not have known you're interested in. And there's a lot of diversity. New opinions, new ideas that you always encounter whether that's in class or walk into a class. The students at Mount Holyoke are so good about actualizing what it is that they think that they need and the ways in which they can make that happen. No other place could have given me the space to get to know myself in the way that Mount Holyoke has. And just in that alone, I know that I belong here and that there's nowhere else I'd rather be. Congratulations! Congratulations! Welcome to Mount Holyoke. You belong here.