In the last weeks of the spring semester, finals loom as students shore up their summer plans. Swimming in the lakes may appeal to some when the weather gets brutal, but professors and students who have tested the water advise against it during the hottest months.

At first, the Shiite uprisings in Bahrain looked much like the burgeoning people’s movements in Tunisia and Egypt. Bahrainis used cell phones and social media to mobilize potential demonstrators. They had good reason to be optimistic when tens of thousands of protesters camped out in Pearl Square, a symbol of wealth in the cosmopolitan city of Manama – until things took a turn for the tragic.

US television hasn’t fared well in the international race to produce panel shows. Not since the cancellation of “What’s My Line?” have we made a novel contribution. Panel shows take many forms, but the most popular of them are game shows in which celebrities —preferably comedians—compete for meaningless points. If you’ve seen “Whose Line is It Anyway?” you’ve seen a panel show.

Let me start this column by deconstructing it. “What I Learned This Week” has historically been the part of the paper that highlights an editor’s writing – or, at least, their narcissism.

The Village Commons has offered to donate four tasers to the South Hadley Police Department, according to reports published in The Springfield Republican. The donation will be worth $3000.

In the weeks following the massive computer theft from Clapp and Cleveland halls, the College has replaced all of the 12 stolen machines. Since then, members of the departments involved have met to discuss the incident and ways to avoid similar crises in the future.

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.

As of Tuesday, Oct. 19, Public Safety was able to confirm that 12 computers had been stolen from campus, most likely on the night of Oct. 16, Las Vegas Night. Three of the computers were stolen from Cleveland Hall, and nine were stolen from Clapp Hall, according to Interim Director Barbara Arrighi.

On Sept. 30, at around 4 p.m. in the afternoon, Robert “Bob” Smith received a call from Mary Jo Maydew, the vice president for finance and administration at Mount Holyoke, informing him that he had just been appointed director of Public Safety for the three-college collaborative.

When I decided to come to Mount Holyoke—and later, to major in English—I never guessed that, one day, I’d be interning at a huge corporation.