On Babies

This may seem an odd topic for a blog about college, but today my nephew was born and so it got me to thinking. Does pregnancy as a topic come up on co-ed colleges as much as it does at an all women's school? It could just be my friends, but until I got here I had no idea what any of my friends felt about in terms of having children. But all of sudden, it comes up as a topic often. I personally, without a doubt, want to adopt. I feel no need to go through nine months of torture and then labor when there are babies all over the world that need someone to love them. Apparently this is an uncommon thought process. Most of friends want at least one child of their own, and most want more. They feel that they were meant to be mothers and can't wait until their time comes. (They even have pregnancy dreams.) What is that about? At school where women are taught that they can do more than just be Suzie-homemaker, why is being a mother so important? My own mother thinks it may just be wired in us as women, after all that is what we were made to do. But living in a society where women have pushed the boundaries and have made it possible for us to do more than just have kids, why is desiring a child so common?

We are surrounded by rooms that women who had to struggle to do more than just get married once lived in. Where is our respect for them and all that they have done for us? Don't misunderstand me and think that I am against being a mother; that is something I would like to do in life, but honestly, I am not in any hurry.

In high school when I once commented on wanting to be a stay at home mom at one point in my life everyone was shocked. Their mouths literally dropped open. How could I way such a thing? To want to raise children rather than being a Senior VP apparently was not how I was perceived. I will never forget the look on all of my male friends' face. They were shocked that such an intellectual person would even consider it. I still want to, at some point in my life stay at home with my child, and I am not of the mindset that you cannot both have a career and be a mother. But I find myself shocked when I hear my friends talk about wanting to be pregnant. I now don the same look all the boys in my class had on their faces. What? Why is that even on their minds right now? Our parents are paying majors amounts of money to make sure that that is not what our lives have to be...why would one run so readily at the thought of having a child?

I must disclose though, that not all my friends feel the same way, there are of course others of my mind set, and then there are others somewhere in the middle, but it still shocks me that anyone at such a pro-women's school would have such a thought. That is not what we are here to do.

Starting Out

I have always been opposed to blogging. I never kept a journal or diary, and I don't think people really care about my daily thoughts...at least I don't really care about other people's. I find no validity in personal blogs. So that leaves us with news blogs, which I don't like either. For one, they take the general public away from the published press and they can't always be trusted giving people false news. I suppose I find blogs that discuss certain subjects interesting and I enjoy a blog every so often that makes me laugh, but I haven't seen the point in following one myself. So here I am, new year, new semester, peeking my head into the blogging world. It should be interesting.

I don't flatter myself thinking that others will be interested in my daily going-ons, and I know that I'm not particularly funny, or so I have been told numerous times. So what to do with a blog?

When talking about a subject matter with friends, we landed on a blog about fashion, or rather about bad fashion, like 'What Not to Wear' blog style. But I am no Stacy or Clinton and I can't presume to know real fashion. I know what I like and what I think looks good as well as what comes off as total train wreaks. So, as to not come off as a stuck-up, wanna-be fashionista I thought I'd carry my friends' idea to a broader place. I attend an all woman's college, a place that only a few people know anything about, truly. Of course there are the myths of an all woman's school which many know, but how many people actually know what goes on inside the dorms? Inside the classrooms, or around campus? To live here is to love women (in theory). So I'm going to explore this place I find myself in and try to relate it to others. It may not be interesting, and I hope to keep my harsh judgements to a minimum, but I'll see where this takes me.