Hello!!

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone enjoyed the first class and find that it may be a new experience for all of you. I know my main motivation for taking this class is basically Anne. I took her Big Books of American Lit class and had a wonderful time growing as a writer and a person in there and I was eager to repeat the exploration. I look forward to getting to know Laura as well for the duration of the semester.

The basics: My name is Catherine and I’m a senior at Bryn Mawr (It’s my last semester so I’m a little scared and sad 🙁 ). I’m a Math major and I hope to enroll at a dental school this coming September. I have never taken a gender studies course or a technology course let alone a course that combined both so this class is an entirely new concept to me. I feel that being at Bryn Mawr we should all study our gender since this is the place that can best provide us with these evaluations. I’m also an equestrian here on the team and love to watch movies and baseball. I’m originally from New York City and love Philadelphia, which is where I spend most of my weekends with my best friend (another Bryn Mawr alum) at her apartment there. I also anticipate meeting all of you and hearing what you have to say about your backgrounds and what ideas you contribute to the discussions in class. I also hope you are open to listening to my stories and input and that you will have opinions towards them whether they are contrasting or not.

This class I am most looking forward to this spring. I have consistently taken classes that have been necessary for my major or beneficial to the workplace and I have enjoyed to a degree enrolling in all of them. This class however, I see as an enriching class as I leave this wonderful environment and enter the real world. I want to discuss something new and challenging and contribute richly to highly intellectual conversations about subjects I am unfamiliar with. This class will be another opportunity to mature from the person I already am with new knowledge from persons like all of you. May you enjoy your experience in this class and for those of you not seniors, enjoy your time here…it is too short. For seniors, I shall miss you all. Thanks!

Regards, Catherine