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pearlsandcashmere:

Smith alum, class of 2005. Straight, white, ally. Currently working as a comedy writer (I wrote a show about Smith!)
A few facts about Smith and me and my Smith experience:
I’m the first woman in my family to go to college. I attended Smith on a hilarious amount of financial aid (it actually worked out to being cheaper for me to go to Smith than it would have been for me to go to UMass). Right now, I give to Smith by paying off my student loans, but if I’m ever at a place in my life where I can afford to do so, I plan to donate. If I ever became BEYOND THE PALE wealthy, I’d give big bucks.
I will be paying off my student loans until my mid-thirties and I have a career where really, I might have been better off if I had skipped college and started taking class at the Upright Citizens Brigade when I was 18. Nonetheless, I have no regrets. I had a great, great, great four years at Smith - I grew (conservatively) 1000000% intellectually, I made some of the best friends of my life, I completely changed my conceptions of what I was capable of, and I attended dozens of parties where I did not wear pants.
Once, I took a philosophy class at Amherst. The class was split 50/50 along gender lines, but the ONLY TWO WOMEN who ever spoke in class were me and the other Smith student.
I spend a lot of time being the only woman in a room full of writers. I spend a lot of time being told that my work is “niche” because it targets 51% of the world. Smith is what gave me the confidence to hold my own on these things - to speak up in that room full of (usually very nice) dudes and to keep writing the things I love. I absolutely am who I am because I went to Smith.

Pearls and Cashmere cropped up last week in response to this crazy offensive letter to the editor in the Smith Sophian. Like Smith, it is both wince-inducingly earnest and legit inspiring. I wrote something for it because I do not tolerate shit talking about my alma mater, attending which was, straight up, one of the top five best decisions I’ve ever made.

True story: I drove past Smith this weekend on my drive to Brattleboro, VT and I remarked twice to S, “THIS IS WHERE LEILA WENT!!!”

pearlsandcashmere:

Smith alum, class of 2005. Straight, white, ally. Currently working as a comedy writer (I wrote a show about Smith!)

A few facts about Smith and me and my Smith experience:

I’m the first woman in my family to go to college. I attended Smith on a hilarious amount of financial aid (it actually worked out to being cheaper for me to go to Smith than it would have been for me to go to UMass). Right now, I give to Smith by paying off my student loans, but if I’m ever at a place in my life where I can afford to do so, I plan to donate. If I ever became BEYOND THE PALE wealthy, I’d give big bucks.

I will be paying off my student loans until my mid-thirties and I have a career where really, I might have been better off if I had skipped college and started taking class at the Upright Citizens Brigade when I was 18. Nonetheless, I have no regrets. I had a great, great, great four years at Smith - I grew (conservatively) 1000000% intellectually, I made some of the best friends of my life, I completely changed my conceptions of what I was capable of, and I attended dozens of parties where I did not wear pants.

Once, I took a philosophy class at Amherst. The class was split 50/50 along gender lines, but the ONLY TWO WOMEN who ever spoke in class were me and the other Smith student.

I spend a lot of time being the only woman in a room full of writers. I spend a lot of time being told that my work is “niche” because it targets 51% of the world. Smith is what gave me the confidence to hold my own on these things - to speak up in that room full of (usually very nice) dudes and to keep writing the things I love. I absolutely am who I am because I went to Smith.

Pearls and Cashmere cropped up last week in response to this crazy offensive letter to the editor in the Smith Sophian. Like Smith, it is both wince-inducingly earnest and legit inspiring. I wrote something for it because I do not tolerate shit talking about my alma mater, attending which was, straight up, one of the top five best decisions I’ve ever made.