Hello readers, As a student in the Five College Consortium, you have a fantastic opportunity to sit in on research seminars from renowned scientists! The chemistry departments of Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and UMass sponsor The Five College Chemistry Series. This annual seminar takes place in the spring, allowing students to learn about research…Continue Reading The Five College Chemistry Lecture Series
Many students at Amherst are worried about finding internships and summer opportunities, and one of the significant parts of Amherst is the plethora of summer opportunities for students. Most of these opportunities are related to research. For example, there’s the Schupf Program, in which students can propose a research project related to the humanities and…Continue Reading Summer Opportunities at Amherst
12/9/2023 Hi everyone! I hope you are well! In this week’s blog, I’m going to write a little about my process writing a French thesis at Amherst College. I foresee this being a little bit of a series – today, I’ll write about how I was accepted to write a thesis and the work I…Continue Reading Writing a thesis
I wouldn’t believe it if you told me during my first semester here at Amherst College that I’d have three student jobs the very next semester. Yet, by the end of the second semester, I was happily working all three current jobs. Of course, having student jobs takes up a lot of time, but I…Continue Reading Student Jobs at Amherst
Hi everyone! I hope your October is going well. In today’s blog, I’m going to talk about my experiences with STEM research at Amherst. Please reach out to me at sgoldsmith24@amherst.edu with any questions. I am a biology and French major, and I wanted to do research at Amherst because I know that I want…Continue Reading STEM Research at Amherst