Course registration brings on a wave of both excitement and panic for students at Mount Holyoke. Some students are thrilled to finally select classes that they have been waiting months or even years to take. Others frantically race to see what they can fit into their schedule. However, with some students receiving earlier times than others, this creates inequity.
When I was 16 years old, I was determined to play collegiate tennis. As I went through the recruiting process, I toured colleges and met with coaches from around the country. Despite staying open minded and assessing my options, I continuously encountered a similar obstacle: many Division III coaches did not seem completely devoted to their programs.
However, Mount Holyoke was different.
The transition from child star to adult celebrity is difficult, but this seems especially so for performers who are women. The ethics of child star performance are dubious at best, and actively harmful at worst. Many of these adolescents never get to experience common domestic environments, and they are exploited and carefully “perfected” by their producers until they are as marketable as possible, often at the expense of their personal identities and well-being. Actors such as Selena Gomez and JoJo Siwa started as child performers on television, and both have pursued their own independent music careers. However, the breakthrough from child star to adult entertainer is a brutal growing pain.
If Mount Holyoke College is truly concerned with making innovative, adventurous education available to its students, then why is its administration limiting our resources and refusing to adapt our academic policies as technology progresses? Artificial intelligence is a polarizing new sector of technology rife with ethical issues and questionable privacy possibilities. AI has been known to perpetuate biases, spread misinformation, collect invasive amounts of online data and lift information from existing spaces online without proper accreditation or permission. Despite this, AI is still used and experimented with — often enough that, according to a survey by BestCollege, 56% of undergraduate and graduate students admitted to using AI on their assignments or exams.
