Last September, you related a similar anecdote (http://www.livejournal.com/users/eredien/45079.html) about the frosh. Given Weirdquark's comment here and Signy's and others' comments last year about their experiences, this seems to be a recurring event, that some members of the incoming class don't "fit in" at BMC and have a closed mindset, and take that out on others.
So I'm curious about the pattern: Do you feel the Class of '06, as a whole, has gotten better since September 2002, through the non-fitting-in frosh either leaving or becoming more mawrtyrly? Do you feel differently about the Class of '07 frosh now than you did about the Class of '06 frosh last year? Did you observe Class of '05 or '04 frosh behaving this way in their first semesters, or did you only start to notice it as an upperclasswoman with a stronger sense of perspective and community?
I'm sorry to hear these things still happen and may in fact recur with each year's class, rather than being one or two bad eggs. But I'm hoping it's at least the case that, after a semester or a year, things get a lot better. After all, at this point, the frosh class has only been at Bryn Mawr for a month; they've seen one tradition, and that on a night with questionable weather and, er, minimal organization.
*hugs*
(Though I must add, at least y'all have a college community, and an absolutely marvelous one at that. Though I haven't yet commented on it, I strongly agree with q10's recent entry on the total lack of community at Swarthmore (http://www.livejournal.com/users/q10/21081.html), especially as compared to Bryn Mawr (http://www.livejournal.com/users/q10/19640.html), and how this is something some of us (myself very much included) are quite bitter about.
You've found your community, and your family, and that's mighty cool. Someday those frosh will find theirs, and for some of them, I suspect, eventually, they'll see what a wonderful place Bryn Mawr is. But it's no fun to deal with them before that. *more hugs*)
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30/9/03 19:36 (UTC)So I'm curious about the pattern: Do you feel the Class of '06, as a whole, has gotten better since September 2002, through the non-fitting-in frosh either leaving or becoming more mawrtyrly? Do you feel differently about the Class of '07 frosh now than you did about the Class of '06 frosh last year? Did you observe Class of '05 or '04 frosh behaving this way in their first semesters, or did you only start to notice it as an upperclasswoman with a stronger sense of perspective and community?
I'm sorry to hear these things still happen and may in fact recur with each year's class, rather than being one or two bad eggs. But I'm hoping it's at least the case that, after a semester or a year, things get a lot better. After all, at this point, the frosh class has only been at Bryn Mawr for a month; they've seen one tradition, and that on a night with questionable weather and, er, minimal organization.
*hugs*
(Though I must add, at least y'all have a college community, and an absolutely marvelous one at that. Though I haven't yet commented on it, I strongly agree with
You've found your community, and your family, and that's mighty cool. Someday those frosh will find theirs, and for some of them, I suspect, eventually, they'll see what a wonderful place Bryn Mawr is. But it's no fun to deal with them before that. *more hugs*)