Simmons' 2011 Commencement Student Speaker Darcie Guilbert began her commencement address by sharing her first Simmons memory. At 17 years old, on her way to a Simmons College campus tour, she told her parents:
"I am not going to an all-women's college, so why are we wasting time even looking!?"
The graduates erupted with laughter remembering how they, too, had similar attitudes. But, they leave Simmons unable to imagine their college experience any other way. Many girls worry that there won't be an active social scene, that women's colleges are elitist, or that they are just finishing schools. We want to set the record straight about the benefits of attending an all-women college, specifically Simmons.