Tips to Succeed at Hampshire

Talk to professors and other students about your interests to
build possible connections in the future.

Keep track of all your paperwork—much gets lost in the
Hampshire bureaucracy.

If you want to see changes on campus, stay active and go to
the numerous meetings with administrators and faculty.

Utilize the Five College Consortium.

Be sensitive and aware of others; Hampshire can be a
cramped place if you make enemies.

Make backup plans just in case students or faculty fake out
on you.

Be persistent. This goes for getting into classes, getting
faculty members on your committee, getting to do
independent studies, and even getting financial aid.

Take advantage of the “course–shopping” period where
you can attend any class you have a remote interest in, get
a syllabus, get a sense of the professor and other students,
and weigh your options.

Learn to budget your time: it may seem like you have plenty
of time to lay back and chill, but if you let assignments,
papers, and final projects snowball, the end of the semester
is going to be brutal.