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At BM, students and faculty members have this idea of the BM woman. This idea wraps up all the ideal student and woman who attends BM should be. She must be her best at all times, smart, independent, never appear weak, never ask for help, or show any weakness associated with the female sex. She is better than the average woman and is held to standards most women couldn't meet. At least this is what I have gathered from the hints that have been dropped. Of course no one ever talks about the standard of perfection, we all just work towards it. She changes depending on the student always embodying the strongest ideal for that particular person. She is a Mawrter, strong, independent, and worthy. She does not exist. She cannot exist, yet there is this unmentioned goal for every student to become her. That is what drives us to do well, to compete, and to take pride in our success. Normally i would say something like this idol would be a constructive idea, helping us all grow, but in reality she hurts us all. We are driven to become an ideal and work towards becoming something that is impossible. No one is perfect..."except us," we think. I can't when and where a freshman is introduced to this woman, but I can say the we all know her and idealize her, secretly hating her for making our lives that mush more stressful. Nothing we can do measures up to her, and nothing ever will. Why would the collective school put this extra pressure to achieve greatness on our shoulders? We all come in feeling it, and leave feeling it, knowing that the ideal will follow us throughout our lives, and knowing that we will never truly be the BM woman.