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| The New York Times: The Independent Women of Sweet Briar |
I'm sure that my friends are wondering why I keep posting about
#savesweetbriar all over my Facebook and Twitter timelines.
This New York Times article explains why.
Sweet Briar College was the only school I wanted to attend. I never
imagined myself at a women's college (no boys???), yet the moment my mother and I drove up the long, winding driveway to campus, I felt like I had come home. (Sorry for ever doubting you, mom!)
Sweet Briar is where I learned that it was safe to raise my hand and
state my opinion. Sweet Briar is where I ate lunch with my professors
and attended informal gatherings at their homes. Sweet Briar is where I
partook in extracurricular activities that had nothing to do with my
major; all activities were open to all students.
At Sweet Briar, I was not an anonymous student lost in a sea of unfamiliar faces.
Saving Sweet Briar
is the least I can do for an institution that gave me the foundation to
become a smarter, more adventurous, more independent woman.