Invisible Education
While UMass Amherst students take their academic experience seriously, a whole component of their education comes from time spent outside of class. This is when the intellectual challenges of a UMass Amherst education are complemented by hundreds of possible activities, and when the benefits of our size and location are most clear: artistic and cultural performances, athletic competitions, community service opportunities, student government offices, religious participation, student businesses, and more.
Together, these opportunities intersect with classroom rigors and produce your Invisible Education: the daily exchanges and collective experiences of campus life that shape and prepare you for your place in the world. With new friendships, service to others, athletic competition, late night philosophical debates, jam sessions in the hallway, and maybe even a campus business to run, your education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is truly complete as you synthesize all of the essential elements.
And thus, a perfect segue to Student Life, the part of college that may challenge you the most, and the part that will give you the memories you’ll be telling your grandchildren about.
