For everyone who is interested, this is an Asia centered world map, which is used widely by Asian countries. How we define a center is largely influenced by where we are.

When I was taking my free walk inside of the campus. I felt safe seeing the familiar faces and settings. Yet When I strayed outside of the campus. I felt lonely and unsafe. I felt really uncomfortable because I don’t feel I belong there. When I thought I find the “boundary” of the campus, a Bryn Mawr woman saw me on the other side of street and waved to me. Suddenly, I got this feeling that I was transported back to school. I felt warm and safe. That is when I begin to think that boundaries of Bryn Mawr College can not be measured geographically. If Bryn Mawr women study abroad to London and still treats their surrounding people like they do in Bryn Mawr – with love. Then, the boundary of Bryn Mawr College can extend to London. If a Bryn Mawr woman sticks to the honor code while traveling in Europe, then the sense of Bryn Mawr community has extended to Europe…

I really don’t know how to reflect my paper, because basically I just wrote the beginning of the paper.

Writing my very first paper was very hard and weird. I have no idea how to reflect. I do wish I can write like Thoreau and make my paper so poetic with rhetoric sententces. Yet it is still hard for me just to describe in English what I am really trying to say.

“’Student voice,’ in its most profound and radical form, calls for a cultural shift that opens up spaces ad minds not only to the sound but also the presence and power of students.” –Cook-Sather 363

This quote resonates with me because back home, in Boston, much of my community organizing had to do with proving that young people are capable and impactful in their own education. Convincing adults was incredibly frustrating work. However, I kept with it because I agree, like Cook-Sather, that the true purpose of student voice should acknowledge and accept the power of students in and beyond education. When reading her article, I found it interesting that much of what she was describing—the positives/negatives of student voice, the power dynamic between young people and adults that calls for student voice—had not been coined with a term. Back home, much of what Cook-Sather describes is called, adultism, the act of discriminating against or undermining someone who is a young person because he/she is not yet an adult.

Dear Students,

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