 So what are some of your favorite traditions and what makes them meaningful? My favorite tradition is convocation. It happens right at the beginning of the school year The day before classes start it's in the fall. It's still really nice out and everyone wears their class colors So I'm a sophomore. I'm definitely red like red green. You're in green and we're seniors, so we're blue Yeah, and there's other people in gold or in purple And it's just really awesome people were really wacky outfits and their speakers the president speaks There's faculty speakers. There's student speakers. There's performance. We're like this really cool song. We've done a couple years My first year there was a flash mom It's just really fun, it's really goofy everyone has a really great time. There's the picnic on the green Yeah, afterwards. We all have this big picnic on the green I'll you see everyone who haven't seen all year, which is really fun And it's just a great year to like start and get excited for the school year and for what's the comp? Yeah, and it's still warm so we can all be outside I really love the big little tradition Which is when they pair an incoming first year with a junior that's already been here And it's just a really nice way to kind of be gifted a mentor coming in here And it's also nice to now as I'm a junior Get a little and get to know somebody and be able to guide somebody through their Mount Holyoke journey the same way that I was My big and to become one of my best friends and now my little is I'm getting really really close with her which is fantastic Yeah, I'm still connecting with my big. She was in Florida. She's an educator And I just I love her so much and I have two little though So it's definitely a great mentor like relationship and friendship as well Yeah, and even without like kind of the formal big little tradition I feel like we can all relate to like having like being able to mentor underclassmen like as you kind of grow and become Older you get to like you just start these mentorship relationships that are like friendships But also you get to like show people the ropes like I remember coming in and I didn't know about like one of the special stations in Blanche and Some one of the seniors in my acapella group was like oh come here They have like buffalo chicken mac and cheese and I was like no way Just like silly things like that like they were showing me the ropes of how to like navigate the school And I couldn't have done it without them. So being able to give that now to underclassmen is really special What's your favorite? My favorite tradition is Pangy Day. That's the last Friday of classes in the spring and there's like lots of different things that happen we do like student performances and the amphitheater and Games on the green and a maypole And then there's like flower crown making just like lots of fun silly stuff I'm kind of similarly to convocation like when we're all coming back and everybody is saying hello again After the summer Pangy Day is a like send off to all of your friends when it's like warm and you get to spend some time outside It's funny because I actually visited my holy oak after getting accepted on Pangy Day And that's really like what made me come to Mount Holy Oak. I saw the community. Everybody was so welcoming It wasn't like I was here as like a stranger I felt like I was part of the community and the food was great and the weather was great So that's like part of the reason why I came to Mount Holy Oak Yeah, and especially after like a winter in Massachusetts being able to like be outside like and this is like formerly Pangy Day But just like as soon as it gets warm everybody's like Everyone goes right outside the energy on campus when it's nice outside is And sort of related to Pangy Day spring weekend is also a great tradition where we have food trucks and a rock climbing wall Fair rides and that's the same sort of energy of it's a Saturday or Sunday afternoon And everybody's just outside and so excited to be together and appreciating like the weather that we now have Yeah, and even mountain day where and a random day in the fall we get to kids of classes It's just climb the mountain and the bells rain seven times a hundred times at 7 a.m Yeah Yeah, but the best part is that we get ice cream on the top of the mountain and we get to climb with our friends and take pictures I've done both different ways. Yeah on the path And they're both just so beautiful and it's such a nice time to spend with friends And yeah, and then the rest of the day you come back down and there's still no classes You're staying out with your friends and you know like make the most of the day whatever you want to do Yeah, and like you need that break like as classes start picking up in the fall. Just like Everybody waits for the day like we're all like when's it gonna be because you don't you don't know when mountain day is until 7 a.m That day so like you like should I not do my readings tonight? So it's just like it's exciting and then like if you're good and you do all your homework when mountain day happens You're like, oh, I'm so far ahead. I've already done all my homework Guilty