Diary of a Sophomore

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The 1938 yearbook published this diary entry of a second-year student titled The Taming of the Shrew. She discusses campus activities such as health exams, teas, Lantern Night, writing papers and coursework, attending chapel and class meetings, and reading the College News.

Her writing is an interesting view of the student life at Bryn Mawr: engaging in some purely intellectual pursuits, and some purely social ones with other women. The combination of the scholarly and feminine is demonstrated in her opinion of the TB test she had to take, during which she felt like "an amoeba under the microscope" like one she may have studied in a science course. Then she tells her journal that "I have no more privacy than the Hygiene Venus- but I hope they find me prettier!"

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Ultimately, it seems that the academic work at Bryn Mawr is what this journal's author focuses on most often.

"I have most of the library in my suitcase", she concludes, but "not as many books as Freshman year."