In the busy community of Bryn Mawr, students are driven to express themselves and are given the trust and independence to govern both themselves and their educations.  That being said, the physical community of Bryn Mawr’s college campus reflects this independence through the intimate spaces students are able to retreat to.  Staff Writer for the Bi-College News, Rachel Ohrenschall, writes “Stressed out by midterms back in October, this author felt a Thoreauesque need to be one with nature.  As such, I stumbled across Bryn Mawr’s own special oasis—the Morris woods,” (Ohrenschall).   This isn’t the only place of retreat for Bryn Mawr students, in fact, even the college’s construction itself acknowledges the important roles of privacy and independence in a place for cultivating minds.

Weilla Yuan

Esem Paper 8

Nov. 6^th, 2014

Embrace the Future

Boyang Su

ESEM#9

Jody Cohen

6, November, 2014

The Complexity of Human and Nature

In her poem Meta/phor, Andrea Friedman wrote about how rocks can represent McBride students. A walk in the Morris wood, looking at the trees and leaves on it also struck me with the idea that how nature resembles people. Looking further into Horowitz’s piece, A Certain Style of “Quaker Lady” Dress, narrated the history of Bryn Mawr College and showed how different Bryn Mawr is now compared to goal of the initiator and the view of M. Carcy Thomas, which also led me to reflect on how the environment and human shape each other mutually.

When going out into the beauty of the world that so abundantly surrounds us, we always speak outside of ourselves. When we talk about landscapes, we focus on the trees and flowers. We so often find ourselves as something added onto the backdrop of the environment. In doing this, we subject ourselves to the idea that nature is something outside of ourselves. We get it in our heads that we taint the natural world and, in doing so, ignore our position in the natural world. I assert that the environment is defined by the variation it can exhibit, includes life in all forms, and is subject to change due to its inhabitants. Nature is not simply a construct of man but a manner by which life can manifest.

Rosa Nanasi Haas

Jody Cohen

Emily Balch Seminar: Changing Our Story

November 7, 2014

Breana Genaro

ESEM

Jody Cohen

7 Nov 2014

The Path Not Taken

Thanks, Doug!

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