What were you made for? Hampshire College viewbook

What were you made for?

You were made to make progress. To make connections. To build up, tear down, reconstruct, and make something altogether new. That’s what we were made for, too.

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The Hampshire EXPERIENCE

Hampshire College was founded in 1965 to radically reimagine liberal arts education. Today, we’re more unconventional than ever, and we’re organized in a way that’s different from any other college in the world. Our curriculum is organized around urgent questions. We combine academic disciplines and work together to address the pressing issues facing society today. And as global challenges shift, so do the topics we tackle collaboratively.

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AGENTS OF CHANGE

We’re looking for the type of student who has their own ideas and passions that drive them; not students who just wait to be told what to do. Our community of self-starters is resilient, resourceful, and committed enough to do the deep work of understanding complex problems. Meet a few of our students and recent grads.

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LEARNING RESOURCES

Faculty and staff who provide academic support and advising. Customized accessibility resources and services. Purpose-driven career services. Robust library, media, and writing support. All are here to help you navigate your Hampshire experience successfully.

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LIFE ON CAMPUS

Our College is a living, learning community dedicated to your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Health and Counseling Services; Outdoor Programs, Recreation, and Athletics; the Hampshire Farm; the Cultural Center; and many student activities and groups round out academic life on campus.

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SUCCESS AFTER HAMPSHIRE

The world looks to Hampshire graduates for leadership in hundreds of fields. Not only do our former students go on to the country’s top grad schools, become entrepreneurs, and receive great jobs, our alums are winners of Pulitzer Prizes, bestselling authors, digital innovators, and actual rocket scientists.

DISTINGUISH YOURSELF FROM THE HERD. WE DID.

We won’t be able to create a better world by doing the same outdated things every other college and university does. And if you want to make real positive change, you shouldn’t have a cookie-cutter education like everyone else, either.

Hampshire is a place for original ideas that fill gaps in knowledge, inventive thinking that creates connections, and problem-solving that can fix what’s broken.

This is the opposite of you.

Daniel Schmidt

Daniel Schmidt is a social organizer rallying a global community of creators. His monthly e-journal, the Public Wave, was designed as a way to stay connected with fellow artists during the pandemic and showcase the creative projects of his friends around the world. Although each artist works independently, Daniel finds similar themes in everyone’s work—the economy, social existence during the pandemic, concern about loved ones, spirituality— and recognizes the power of so many individuals simultaneously questioning the state of our society.

Many of my friends were finding their own way to question the status quo. I am learning that it’s okay to make art with the same message as my neighbor and my friend because there’s power in numbers: as Gayle Rubin said in The Traffic in Women, ‘organization gives power.’”

READ MORE STUDENT STORIES AT HAMP.IT/STUDENTS

Darleane Torres

When I was applying and talking about my goals and what I wanted to study, Hampshire was the one school to tell me ‘Yes.’”

To build the skills she’d need as an entrepreneur, Darleane Torres wanted an education that focused on both engineering and business management. Hampshire was the only place where she’d be able to get that. Taking full advantage of the freedom, resources, and support the Hampshire experience provides, Darleane started her

own business as a Div I student (first and second year). Her startup, Painter Printer, is developing robot technology to paint houses better and more efficiently than professional painters. The company has already won $5,500 in funding from a competition for femalefounded startups, which will be used to create prototypes.

Your college experience here will be unlike anywhere else— and unlike anyone else’s.

ALUMS DISCUSS THE POWER OF ACADEMIC EXPERIMENTATION AT HAMP.IT/EXPERIMENT

No majors OR DEPARTMENTS NO GRADES

THE COLLECTIVE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

Studentdesigned curriculum

At Hampshire, you’ll move across, between, and outside of academic areas, combining fields to curate your own original course of study while working in collaboration with your peers.

Faculty advisers that you select will work with you to design a personalized curriculum addressing the big question, challenge, or issue you’re most interested in.

In community, you’ll devise real solutions, create something entirely new, and fill gaps in knowledge.

A BETTER MEASURE OF YOUR PROGRESS

Narrative evaluations

We know grades aren’t an accurate or effective measurement of learning.

Instead of grades, your performance is assessed with constructive, written feedback from faculty members based on reviews of your projects, your engagement in classes and community, your writings, your art.

When you aren’t working for a grade, you have the freedom to explore the unknown, find new areas of interest, take risks, fail, and learn how to start again.

It’s a lot more fun and it prepares you better for life.

No freshmen or seniors

VARYING STAGES OF LEARNING

Divisional structure

Rather than a traditional four-year college program, you advance through three divisions, from exploratory to foundational to advanced.

Each division requires a portfolio review, including narrative feedback from each course, final papers or projects, other meaningful work, and a retrospective.

Your studies at Hampshire culminate in an in-depth, yearlong Division III project of your own design similar to a graduate-level thesis, through which you’ll prove your mastery and defend your work before a faculty committee.

an academic program relevant to the world

WE LIVE IN . . . AND THE ONE we WANT TO live in.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR DISTINCTIVE PROGRAM AT HAMP.IT/ MOBILIZE

At Hampshire, you’ll learn multiple ways to identify a challenge, ask the right questions, mobilize resources, and incorporate diverse points of view as you propose solutions. You’ll take your passion projects beyond the conceptual and make them real.

THESE KEY ELEMENTS MAKE IT WORK

urgent questions

We’re living through a time of great change, with revolutions in technology, global politics, modes of interaction, and knowledge-building. You’ll work with other students and faculty to determine which urgent, global challenges should be addressed as a unifying area of study and prepare for doing work that matters.

unbounded thinking

Imposing disciplinary boundaries can impede our thinking and the approaches we take to addressing real challenges. Hampshire has always known this, and most courses and projects have been interdisciplinary from the beginning. Now, we’ve pushed even further, into transdisciplinarity — mixing disciplines to produce something entirely new. Our Semester Unbound, designed much like a work setting, is a single immersive class that takes the time, energy, and commitment of four regular classes, and brings together an array of perspectives, resources, and skill sets to pursue a real-world concern without limits.

ENTREPRENEURIAL skills

Many courses entail project work — either independently or collaboratively. Learning how to propose a project, gather resources, and manage all the pieces start to finish prepares you for taking on the world. Being “entrepreneurial” can mean anything from starting a business to filling a gap in research to developing a new product.

RACE and POWER

Anti-racism is woven through each divisional level, providing tools for students to delve into historical and contemporary conceptions of race and oppression through all they study. Deepening an understanding of how race informs power structures helps us begin to change them.

Community-Engaged Learning

“CEL” involves connecting your learning to doing. In a hands-on setting on or off campus, you’ll gain experience and expand your fields of knowledge through internships, apprenticeships, or mentorships; projects with community organizations or peers; or research with local, national, or international agencies.

together, we make powerful connections to tackle REAL issues.

Rather than traditional academic departments, Learning Collaboratives are the intellectual homes for our students, faculty, and staff. Learning Collaboratives rally thought leadership and expertise from disparate disciplines to dissect, discuss, and address from every angle the vexing issues facing society today. Within them, groups work together to tackle urgent challenges from multiple perspectives.

Learning Collaboratives

Learning Collaboratives are clusters of academic resources aligned around key themes to address urgent 21st-century challenges. We address problems with our societies and governments; the condition of our health and our environments; and other systems that are broken and in need of change.

Faculty, staff, and students bring together their own

perspectives and expertise, mixing ideas, skills, and passions among a community pursuing similar questions and projects.

Each Learning Collaborative comprises a variety of courses, events, projects, and public forums for sharing work in progress.

Students learn to recognize their roles in addressing complex issues and develop essential

skills and experience with entrepreneurial approaches, global problem-solving, antiracist practices, and multidisiplinary project work—putting them to use in meaningful, realworld contexts.

As global issues change, so do the topics of our Learning Collaboratives, evolving to reflect the world around us.

Learning Collaboratives are organized around today’s most pressing problems, and they evolve as the world’s critical issues shift. We explore questions such as:

How do we repair our environment?

How should we act on our responsibilities in the face of climate change?

How can we disrupt and dismantle white supremacy?

How do technologies shape our relationship to the world?

How do we decide what constitutes “truth” in a “post-truth” era?

How can art and creative practices engage trauma?

Whose histories get told?

LEARN MORE ABOUT TACKLING URGENT PROBLEMS AT HAMP.IT/SOLUTIONS

Chynna Aming

Hampshire has not only allowed me to become innovative and involved with my community, it was also here that I met some of the most important people in my life.

Chynna Aming is a scientist and advocate who studies the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on reproductive health through a neuroscience and public health lens. As a Div III student, she conducted research on the effectiveness of support groups

My friends have created this idea of community for me during my time at Hampshire, and they represent the people I want to show up for in the world.

for survivors of childhood sexual assault. She credits Hampshire for not only giving her the chance to develop and refine her leadership and research skills, but also for helping her see the unique beauty in every community.

Jahmique Robinson

For me, I’m a futurist. When I think about what the future holds, I know it’s limitless as far as technology. I want to be a pioneer of the advancements that are coming.”

Jahmique, a mechanical engineering student, is also a podcaster whose interests are social culture, the life experiences of his generation, and what effects technology will have on both in the future. Jahmique’s podcast, Talking Mad Shit, gives him a way to express himself and a platform to encourage his peers to express themselves as well. It’s also an avenue for him to think critically about forthcoming technological advancements and what should be developed to make life better.

You’ll never learn alone.

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ARE JUST A FEW OF THE WAYS YOU MIGHT COLLABORATE WITH PEERS AND FACULTY TO GO DEEP ON A TOPIC

Inside the Collaborative Modeling Center, students form collaborative partnerships with faculty and staff to conduct interdisciplinary research involving mathematical, computational, visual, and physical models.

Students are encouraged to coauthor articles with professors. As the first authors, students take the lead in conducting the research and writing the paper—a rare opportunity for an undergraduate.

Professor of Economics Omar Dahi works with students on his project, Security in Context, a global initiative focused on analyzing the history of warfare and inequality and redefining commonly held conceptions of what security really means. Dahi’s students work as research assistants, video editors, and audiovisual production coordinators engaging in cutting-edge, impactful questions.

Students work alongside Dr. Laela Sayigh, assistant professor of animal behavior, as she studies social behavior and communication of cetaceans (whales and dolphins), and even take dive trips to places such as Chilean Patagonia for up-close observation.

Design your own academic program in collaboration with our accomplished faculty advisers. Guided by them, you’ll forge your own path, taking roads not already paved for you.

In the process, you’ll learn to seek out people to learn with and from, figure out how to get resources and solve problems relevant to your interests, and work flexibly and with confidence to meet unexpected challenges and opportunities.

You’ll have all of our resources to support you on your journey.

Academic Support and Advising (CASA)

provides support and assistance to you and your advisers for planning and achieving your academic goals. CASA monitors your academic progress and offers a variety of support and programming to faculty and students at all divisional levels. CASA is the hub for academic services at Hampshire.

Advisers play a vital role in the lives of our students; having effective advising is essential to your success. A good advisor has strong interpersonal skills, a broad base of knowledge about the College’s curriculum, and easy familiarity with a lot of procedural detail.

ROBUST LIBRARY SERVICES

are available to students through a dynamic hub of people, technology, and information that serves as an incubator of ideas across disciplines.

Librarians are there to assist you with research questions, citation management, and finding resources for all your projects: books, journals, movies, music, data, and images.

The building itself also houses many creative and collaborative spaces. Among them are an art gallery, shared meeting rooms, and media labs.

Accessibility Resources and Services (OARS)

strives to support students with disabilities holistically, through relationship-building, coaching, appropriate accommodation, and referrals. OARS provides services to students with documented physical, learning, sensory, psychological, developmental, and other disabilities, and also supports students who cannot or do not want to formally disclose. Our staff collaborate proactively across campus to remove barriers, to make it possible for students to achieve their full potential.

PURPOSE-DRIVEN CAREER EXPLORATION

helps you acquire practical experience throughout your time at Hampshire, which will help you to be competitive as you apply your knowledge and skills to future endeavors. Eighty-six percent of our students participate in an internship or other relevant work experience before they graduate.

Our SPARC office starts with the premise that life is a process, not a linear career path. Your purpose will emerge as you experiment, reflect, reimagine, and experiment again. You’ll discover creative ways to weave your interests and values into meaningful life work. SPARC will partner with you to develop skills, choose resources, and make connections that support you in creating a life that is uniquely yours.

Writing SUPPORT

is offered to all Hampshire students interested in developing their written communication skills. Because writing is important at Hampshire, our Writing Center provides a range of services and programming, such as individual meetings, workshops, and formal courses in writing.

see for yourself.

Healthy, Happy, and SUPPORTED.

We offer a comprehensive approach to health and wellness, considering your physical, mental, cultural, and spiritual well-being. If you’re on campus, you have access to a variety of offices, centers, and programs to support you as a student.

Health and Counseling Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

> Flu shots, travel vaccines, and immunizations against HPV

> Case management and coordination of specialist care

> Diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses and injuries

> Gender-affirming hormone treatment: counseling and medical

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Counseling Services is staffed by a diverse group of clinicians who are available for brief consultations, short-term psychotherapy, crisis support, and group therapy. Group psychotherapy has proved to be a particularly effective tool for addressing issues common among college students.

There are also resources such as telehealth, in-person appointments at UMass Amherst University Health Services, and emergency care at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, as well as an abundance of other practitioners and service providers in Amherst and Northampton.

The Wellness Center

We offer education and promote wellness on topics such as healthy relationships, bystander intervention and preventing sexual violence, preventing alcohol and other drug abuse, self-care, developing resilience, sexual health, sleep health, and campus and community resources.

Spiritual Life

Spiritual Life offers programs that enable you to explore the connections between spiritual well-being, holistic wellness, and social justice while engaging our community in vital questions of meaning, purpose, and how we live in the world.

CAMPUS SAFETY AND WELLBEING

Unlike traditional policing and law enforcement, our campus safety office is designed after the Community Responder Model. In addition to protecting life and property, we are committed to community safeguarding, respecting civil rights, addressing social justice, and supporting quality of life through problem-solving.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES, GROUPS & Resources

We support dozens of student groups, such as Design Conspiracy, Circus Club, Fermentation Club, the Wool People, Climbers Coalition, and Mixed Nuts Co-op, that offer an eclectic range of campus events and activities. Hampshire students can also access the clubs, organizations, and events at the other Five College schools.

The group of student artisans known as the Blacksmith’s Guild meet up once a week to practice artistic and practical metalworking at the Center for Design. These armor gloves were made by Murphy Hunn 18F.

Infinity Productions supports students with video and film needs, and documents Hampshire student performances. It’s always

Designed and constructed in 1993 as a group independentstudy project, the Yurt currently houses the campus radio station.

S.O.U.R.C.E. (Students of underrepresented cultures and ethnicities)

is a coalition of groups that exist for students in underrepresented communities to gain a sense of family and belonging, build cultural connections, promote campus-wide education and advocacy around topics of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity, and to have fun!

CHECK OUT OUR STUDENT GROUPS & ACTIVITIES AT ENGAGE.HAMPSHIRE.EDU

Share your love of circus with fellow jugglers, acrobats, unicyclists, poi spinners, staff twirlers, stilt walkers, fire spinners, clowns, and musicians in our Circus Club.

offers a range of programming, as well as a space for multicultural community-building, individual expression, leadership fostering, and the exchange of ideas. We work to examine how race and culture intersect with other social identities and their impact on how we see ourselves and the world.

Lebrón-wiggins-Pran CULTURAL CENTER

Outdoor Programs, Recreation, and Athletics (OPRA)

OPRA offers opportunities to explore the outdoors through day-long and multiday trips, as well as semester-long classes. Enjoy hiking, camping, climbing, skiing, boating, and more. Instructional offerings include martial arts, yoga, and strength and conditioning.

Students can also focus on their health and well-being by taking advantage of our fitness center and weight room, an indoor track, tennis courts, bouldering cave, or pool and sauna. With 800 acres of meadows and woods full of trails on campus, a nearby mountain range, and more than 200 miles of bike trails, the wider community also has lots to offer.

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS

Hampshire College is a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) and the Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC). We also have a competitive intercollegiate athletic program that offers studentathletes an opportunity to compete at regional and national levels.

> Women’s Basketball

> Men’s Basketball

> Women’s Soccer

> Men’s Soccer

> Cross Country

> Track and Field

CLUB SPORTS

> Ultimate Frisbee

> Climbers’ Coalition

> Equestrian Team

Iaidō (Japanese Swordsmanship) is just one of the skills you can master through Hampshire’s Outdoor Programs, Recreation, and Athletics classes.

Red Scare is Hampshire’s Ultimate Frisbee team. The student-organized group works to provide an inclusive space for all genders and experience levels to learn and play, as well as engage in conversations around gender dynamics and sexism in sports.

There are hundreds of miles of gorgeous hiking and biking trails accessible directly from Hampshire’s campus.

residential life

Hampshire campus is unconventional, quirky, and always welcoming. Here, you’ll discover yourself and find community for life. You’ll create a life that balances friends, activities, and opportunities with your pursuit of learning.

After your first year on campus, when you live in a dorm, you can move to one of our three apartment-style spaces we call mods.

Grab supplies from local and fair trade producers at the Mixed Nuts Food Co-Op, our student-run, volunteer-based collective.

Meet up with friends at The Bridge to debate the implications of falafel on gender and culture or to just play cards.

Pick up a latte and a pastry at the Kern Kafé, Hampshire’s own independently run coffee shop.

Pick your own peppers, tomatoes, beans, herbs, and flowers from our Community Supported Agriculture garden.

Our Dining Commons serves sustainably grown and raised produce and meat, straight from the Hampshire College Farm.

FIVE COLLEGE CONSORTIUM

Hampshire’s founders were Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They set out to create a lab of an undergraduate institution, experimenting with how a college could be a more effective intellectual and moral force in the world.

One of the country’s most exciting and active educational collaborations, the FIVE COLLEGE Consortium offers a huge network of academic and social resources.

Students at each campus can cross register for classes, join clubs, try out for club sports and performing arts groups, borrow books, attend events, and dine at the other four schools.

That’s more than 7,000 classes a year, NINE MILLION volumes among the libraries, HUNDREDS of clubs, and about 30,000 potential new friends to make.

Western Massachusetts is a cultural hub of art, music, and food surrounded by the foothills of the Berkshires. Home to DOZENS of museums, concert venues, bookstores, restaurants, 200+ miles of bikes trails—it’s the perfect blend of city and country.

A free bus system connects the FIVE COLLEGES and THREE towns, day and night.

THE POWER OF FIVE

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

The world looks to Hampshire graduates for leadership in hundreds of fields.

HOW WILL THE WORLD LOOK TO YOU?

MANNY CASTRO

Manny Castro 06F, executive director of the New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) organization, in Queens, N.Y., was recognized with a $200,000 grant from the David Prize, which supports New Yorkers with the plans and vision to make a difference in the lives of the city’s residents.

KEN BURNS

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns 71F has directed and produced some of the most acclaimed historical films ever made. He has won 16 Emmys, been the recipient of the Academy of TV Arts & Science Lifetime Achievement Award and holds more than 30 honorary degrees.

HEATHER BOUSHEY

Heather Boushey 88F, cofounder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, is as a key member of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, a group tasked with keeping the president informed about economic issues. Politico twice named her one of the top 50 “thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics.”

MARIANA VALENCIA

Dance artist Mariana Valencia 02F was a 2020 LMCC Extended Life grantee, a 2019 Whitney Biennial artist, a 2018 Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, and a 2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient.

LUCY MCFADDEN

LUPITA NYONG’O

Actress Lupita Nyong’o 03 received an Academy Award for her performance in 12 Years a Slave Other credits include Black Panther, the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Us, and the Broadway play Eclipsed. In 2019 she published the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book, Sulwe

JON KRAKAUER

Jon Krakauer 72F is a mountaineer and the author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven, the latter of which has been turned into a television series starring Andrew Garfield. He received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.

A retired senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Lucy McFadden 70F she conducted research on the formation and evolution of comets and asteroids in our solar system using state-ofthe-art robotic telescopes and spacecraft. She has had an asteroid, 3066 McFadden, named in her honor.

JOSE FUENTES

Jose Fuentes 05F is a partner at HwC Ventures and cofounder of Duolingo, a crowdsourced language-learning and translation platform. His most recent venture is as partner of the New York-based food delivery company Savory, where he leads software and product.

My Hampshire education taught me how to take just a sketch of an idea and make something concrete from that. It taught me to investigate things and to lean into that which sparks your imagination.”

TOP 20

Oneofthe top20collegesfor entrepreneurs

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2 OF 3 graduates earn an advanced degree within ten years of commencement

HEAD OF INSTAGRAM

Hampshire alums have won Pulitzer and Hillman Prizes and Emmy, Academy, Peabody, and Grammy Awards.

1 in 4

of our graduates starts a business or nonprofit

Ian Spalter 94F has been named one of Fast Company ’s most creative people, and has held UX and design positions at tech giants such as Foursquare and YouTube. Currently, he’s head of Instagram Japan.

Hampshire is in the

TOP 3%

of the nation’scolleges whose graduates go on to earn a research doctorate

Nicole DelRosso

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Nicole DelRossa 12F came to Hampshire to study sculpture. She left as the winner of a Fulbright, sculpting a nanoscale motor to work inside human cells to treat diseases and monitor health. She’s now pursuing a Ph.D. in biophysics at Stanford University.

Columbia University

9 in 10 alums

receive a job offer within six months of graduating

FINDMOREOUTCOME STORIESAT HAMP.IT/OUTCOMES

most frequently attended grad schools

University of Massachusetts Amherst

New York University

Harvard University

Yale University

Boston University

University of California, Berkeley Cornell University

Smith College

100%

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Pennsylvania

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Northeastern University

of students complete Campus and Community-Engaged Learning that combines academics with impact on campus, locally, or globally

From its unique open curriculum to its special divisional system that shapes classes and projects to suit our future goals—Hampshire breeds visionary innovators and leaders.”

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Rupert Tawiah-Quashie is part of a team of students who won a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to implement “<Code_gh>,” a training program that aims to give high school students in Ghana, where he’s from, an opportunity to excel in the tech world.

“We want to create an innovation hub that will contribute significantly to sustainable growth and ensure that Ghanaian youth can safely and adequately explore the wide array of options available to them so that they can be in better positions to further promote peace,” TawiahQuashie says.

The students are contributing to future economic development, as well as the abatement of future impoverishment, hunger, lack of education, and climate-related issues. Successful execution of “<Code_gh>” is the first step in dealing with these issues in a proactive manner.

Projects for Peace is a global program at Middlebury College that “encourages young adults to develop innovative, communitycentered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues.”

I’ve never been a linear thinker or worker. Hampshire gave me an opportunity to thrive under independent and creative conditions.”

Marissa Perez was the first community college student to win Mount Holyoke’s prestigious Glascock Poetry Prize. Judges said her “sonic landscapes accrue meaning through accumulated connections, inviting (trusting!) readers to leap from moment to moment like charges firing across a synapse—sparking across each gulf, illuminating their path as they move.”

Soon after, Perez transferred to Hampshire from Holyoke Community College. Her Div III was a twopart project consisting of an art exhibit and corresponding written piece meditating on a page from a 622-year-old medieval French manuscript.

Marissa perez

Take this as a sign

Your Hampshire horoscope and highlight

ARIES

MARCH 21–APRIL 19

You’re the first to sign up to volunteer for a cause, and you never hesitate to jump right into a challenge. Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, after all. Remember to make room for those who are more reserved than you. Be the force that brings them along instead of leaving them behind.

Grabbing a bike and hitting the mountain trails

TAURUS

APRIL 20–MAY 20

Chilling out is one of your best-ats, especially when you’re surrounded by the kind of natural beauty at Hampshire. As an earth sign, you’ll feel right at home here in our lush mountain home. Be an inspiration to others as you demonstrate how to care for our planet.

Picking your own vegetables in our sunny CSA garden

GEMINI

MAY 21–JUNE 20

You do so much, sometimes people think there must be two of you. Good thing there is, celestially speaking, because you’re into everything. Take advantage of the many options at Hampshire to explore all your interests.

Attending not only all the events on campus, but also a few at the other four colleges in our Five College consortium

CANCER

JUNE 21–JULY 22

Empathy is your superpower. People are drawn to your intuitive nature. Harness these innate capabilities to bring people together while you show the upside to—and motivations behind—everyone’s different perspectives.

Rallying your peers around a key theme, then attacking it from every angle

LEO

JULY 23–AUGUST 22

You have a gift for the dramatic and are naturally drawn to stand in the spotlight. Use your lion’s roar to speak out about your passions and to amplify unheard voices. Be wary of letting your royal status as ruler of the jungle go to your head.

Presenting your Div III project and basking in the committee’s congratulations

VIRGO

AUGUST 23–SEPTEMBER 22

Your methodical and rational approach will serve you well at Hampshire as you immerse yourself in the pursuit of answers. Encourage others with your patience and diligence when solutions seem too complex and they get frustrated.

Your Div II independent study

LIBRA

SEPTEMBER 23–OCTOBER 22

Represented by the scales, you’re obviously a force for equality, balance, and harmony. You’re an ideal champion for Hampshire’s commitment to racial justice. And since that theme is present in all our studies, you’ll have the chance to speak out for it often. Remember that you don’t always have to have total agreement to get along.

Making your intentional housing community a peaceful place to live

SCORPIO

OCTOBER 23–NOVEMBER 21

One of the most resourceful signs, Scorpios like you thrive in an environment that rewards outside-the-box thinking (like Hampshire of course). Your love for truth will drive you to seek answers to big questions. Guide your peers to see the things hiding in plain sight.

Mobilizing the peoplepower and collecting the physical resources required to complete your first community-engaged learning project

SAGITTARIUS

NOVEMBER 22–DECEMBER 21

You, the archer, shoot arrows in many directions, chase after them, and find adventures waiting along the way. Your intense curiosity will take you to several

places, not just geographical, but also intellectual and spiritual. Share your delight of the unknown with everyone you meet.

Studying abroad in Madrid

CAPRICORN

DECEMBER 22–JANUARY 19

You have a mythical, mystic quality about you, like the sea goat that represents your celestial sign. A lover of music and craft, you excel in artistic expression and often find your viewpoint is best expressed through your art. Your abstract way of thinking complements and enhances those whose minds are concrete.

Every minute spent inside the Music and Dance Building in the Longsworth Art Village

AQUARIUS

JANUARY 20–FEBRUARY 18

You are represented by the water bearer, a healer who brings life. Through your empathy, commitment, and affinity for humanitarian causes, you, too, heal those around you. You have a tendency to absorb the feelings of others. Don’t forget your feelings are important too.

Collaborating with faculty to solve real problems

PISCES

FEBRUARY 19–MARCH 20

You are wise beyond your years. Use your intuitive knowing, along with your selfless nature, to root out injustice and bring it to light. Help shoulder the burdens of others, but use care not to fall into the victim role when what you need is better boundaries.

Time spent with friends at The Bridge

ANURA

JANUARY 1–DECEMBER 31

You hold the collective Hampshire consciousness—the desire to rebel, to change, to right wrongs, to run naked at midnight. You channel the energy of every Hampshire student and faculty member who has ever existed, and transform it into ongoing contributions that are uniquely your own.

Choosing your Div III topic

YOUR FUTURE AT HAMPSHIRE

Apply Now

In our admissions process, Hampshire College is entirely test-free. We never required SATs or ACTs, and now we won’t even accept them. Instead, we take a holistic look at your application, to see what makes you who you are.

First-year students

REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS

> Completed Common Application

> Mid-Year Report (if currently attending high school)

> Current or completed high school transcript(s)

> School report and college counselor recommendation

> One (1) teacher letter of recommendation

International Students

See our English proficiency requirement online or request a waiver by contacting our international recruitment coordinator, at admissions@hampshire.edu

Transfer Students

(must have earned at least 15 college credits)

We accept transfer credits for comparable courses taken at a regionally accredited college or university. transfer.hampshire.edu

Homeschool/Unschool Students

Through your Hampshire application, we will gain a better understanding of your learning experiences and help you continue to shape your curriculum. homeschool.hampshire.edu

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