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After looking at the mission statement for Bryn Mawr alongside the requirements that we must complete in order to graduate, I do think there is some overlap. We are certainly learning to think critically since we must take so many different types of courses in order to fulfill our requirements. This means that we will be able to look at problems in one area and still be able to bring in knowledge and problem solving skills from another area. I think that it is significant that part of the mission statement addresses our relationship with the area around us from Haverford to Philadelphia itself. I would say that this was the most unexpected aspect of the mission statement for me. Generally, I think of mission statements as focusing exclusively on the institution being described, so I found this interesting. I do think that this is the part of the mission statement in which our course requirements do not exactly line up. This is because it would really be possible to get all of your requirement out of the way without ever taking a class at another campus. If this was really a main part of the mission statement, you would think that the current requirements would address it to a greater extent. When I looked at the new proposed requirements, I felt as if they were almost the exact same requirements with different names. This does not seem like the purpose of coming up with new requirements. That is simply rearranging rather than innovating.