Jessica Stephens

Jessica Stephens is not in fact a real person, but the name of a figment of Hampshire's collective imagination. The idea of J.S. was planted in the mind of one student long ago by an alien race experimenting with the invasive and contagious nature of a single thought; it spread so widely throughout the student body that eventually a physical projection had to be planted to sustain the idea. For this purpose, the extraterrestrial scientists created an aggressive parasitic immortal consciousness that seeks to assimilate all Hampshire campus with sheer dominating power and capable of relocating itself into a new body upon its host body's "graduation". The new body is always chosen from amongst the incoming class, but a recent fluke in the complex algorithm determining likelihood of Hampshire attendance sent the consciousness to an unqualified body, reincarnating in a host off campus.

Therefore, the current J.S. has spent the past two years attempting to rectify the situation by practicing espionage at Hampshire College, deviously posing as... a Hampshire student.

You may be assured she is succeeding because you are reading this; she infiltrated the system so far as to be able to tamper with Hampedia. This was done upon her acceptance as a transfer student, and in Fall 2012 the current host body arrived on campus to continue the J.S. legacy at Hampshire for the remainder of the student's education in the Pioneer Valley.

She is of course not the real Jessica Stephens. Her name is Ryan, and she inherited the title from the previous Jessica Stephens. The woman she inherited it from was not the real Jessica Stephens either. Her name was Cummerbund. The real Stephens has been retired 15 years and living like a queen in Patagonia.

= Courses =

Intro to Anthro

Intro to Astronomy

Crossing Medieval Boundaries

Gods &amp; Mortals

The Crusades

Dante's Journey

Renaissance North &amp; South

Beginning French I

Illuminated Manuscripts

Iran - Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Beginning French II

Voice in Verse

Shakespeare (300)

Old English

Brit Lit: Medieval to Commonwealth

Shakespeare (200)

Cupid's Martyrs

Hopes and Fears

The Renaissance at Home

= PE courses =

Beginning Riding I

Ren Dance I (x3!)

Beginning Riding II

Ren Dance II

Low-Intermediate Riding (x2)

Backcountry Navigation

Intermediate Riding

= Other stuff I do =

Mythos

Hunt seat horseback riding

Excalibur

Lute

Fencing

Blacksmithing

= Sucess rate  =

UPDATE: J.S. HAS RETURNED TO HAMPSHIRE. If you see her around campus you should no longer assume she took the PVTA to get there!