Going to a women’s college is liberating. This is something that people who go to coed colleges can’t seem to wrap their heads around. When you’re constantly being asked, “How do you survive without boys?”, “is everyone there lesbian?”, “What’s the point of going to an all women’s college?”, “Don’t you get sick of being around girls all the time?” It not only gets exhausting but also increasingly aggravating.

I have found that it is so hard for people to understand why anyone would choose a women’s only college in this day and age, and I have to admit I didn’t even consider attending one until I got into Bryn Mawr.

Out of the schools I was accepted to, Bryn Mawr was by far the most academically rigorous and socially and politically progressive school and I had a great feeling about it. When I was deciding on which school to attend I decided to start researching a lot about women’s colleges, particularly the seven sisters. These colleges were the first places where women could get a higher education.

As it had always been men who were considered deserving of a higher education because they were deemed smarter and more capable of doing extraordinary things, the founding of the seven sisters were exemplary of the slightest bit of equality that women were receiving. I read on about the accomplished women who graduated from these colleges, they were the first prominent female scientists, social and political activists, actresses, authors and the list goes on and on.

After reading about these strong and powerful women, I knew that Bryn Mawr was the school for me. I aspired to be one of those women, to honor their legacy by graduating from Bryn Mawr, a seven sister. Like every hopeful college student, I wanted to change the world in some way.

Once I got to Bryn Mawr in August, I knew that I had made the right decision. I am so lucky to be in a school that fosters an environment for women to not only feel comfortable in their own skin, but to be proud of themselves and their accomplishments both inside and outside of the classroom. While I’ve been here I have met amazing people and made wonderful friendships that I will cherish for the rest of my life and I whole-heartedly believe this is because I go to a women’s college.

Not only have the women I’ve met here displayed that their main goal is to support and uplift the women around them, but that they are accepting of every woman they meet and they understand that we can all join together with the commonality that we all have; we are all women who have each gone through our own struggles because of our gender and that only makes us stronger.