Recently, The Mount Holyoke News caught up with Jacinta Edebeli ’11, an Environmental Studies major who spent her spring break in Costa Rica and Panama doing a small research project as part of her Five College UMass course in Tropical Field Biology.

Let’s face it, internet privacy is an oxymoron. I am not talking about Facebook’s train of highly publicized privacy screwups; I’m talking about the fact that if you connect your computer to the internet, there is somewhere out there who can hack into it. Luckily for most of us, those people are few and far between, especially if you’re on a private network.

CTY kids somehow always find each other. Charlotte, Marianna and I are no exception to the rule. For those of you who weren’t cool enough in middle school and high school to attend this glorified nerd camp, let us explain. CTY stands for Center for Talented Youth, and it’s a summer program run by John Hopkins, where students take a college-level course for three weeks. It is not a camp—it is a cult.

By some strange twist of fate, the three of us all attended the Dickinson College program site in Carlisle (aka Middle of Nowhere, PA) and have ended up here at MoHo. So what have we learned? Well, we have learned that although we may be too old to attend CTY, we will never be too old to appreciate it.