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Thank you thank you thank you for saying those things!!

My mother has been expressing similar sentiments to me ever since I entered Bryn Mawr 3 years ago and began to feel overwhelmed by the level of intellectual discourse here..."Trust yourself Abby.  In the "real world" you will have a lot to offer, even if you didn't write the best paper in every class..." I have been stubbornly resisting of course...but I figure that's my job as the troublesome youngest daughter...

Anyway, I agree that it's really inspiring to share our class space with alums and see their interest in our own work.

And I still struggle with feeling like I have to define myself, have to choose certain labels.  Even to be counted among the "good," the "revolutionary" or the "progressive." I'm trying to take it easy and remember what is important: "what [I] belive and value, and how [I] translate that into [my] presence in the world."

Abby