Keeping in Touch with Mount Holyoke

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• Send your overseas mailing address to the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives, particularly if you will be away for a semester or year. You can submit your address on-line with the Address Notification Form. If you will be away for a semester or year, we will automatically enter your address abroad into the main student data base, unless you specifically ask us not to do so. Individual College offices may send mail to your leave address or your home address. Also be sure to leave a forwarding address with Mail Services (only first-class mail will be forwarded, everything else will be discarded).

• Arrange for someone at home to screen your mail there and forward important items to you.

• Keep in touch with your adviser and keep him or her informed about your courses, research or work abroad.

• MCGI and other college departments will send important information to your MHC e-mail account. Be sure to check that account regularly and keep it clear of any quota limits; forward your MHC e-mail to whatever other account you may use more regularly while you are away.

• Remember that you can find all kinds of useful information on Mount Holyoke's web site; also take note of our page with information and links that may be of particular use to you while you are abroad (study abroad: What to Know Before You Go & Interns: MHC Internships.

• By the time you come back and report on your experiences, other students may already be settled in at the place where you studied or worked. We appreciate hearing from you while you are away, whether to help out with a question or problem or just to know that things are going well. Your experiences will help us advise other students. (In addition to these practical matters, we are interested in knowing how you are doing and eager to hear from you!)

• When you return to Mount Holyoke you will be asked to complete an evaluation form or final report about your learning abroad program. This evaluation is an integral part of the learning abroad experience and it is a very useful source of information for us and for other students. Please get it done as soon as possible after your program, while your memories are still fresh.