<p>Congratulations, guys! </p>
<p>I'm a current frosh - I figured I would chime in a little on a few of the questions that have been asked.</p>
<p>Number one, our anthro department is phenomenal, and Professor Murphy is really fantastic. (I took 101 this semester.) They're not shy about letting students handle artifacts, and we got a lot of hands on experience, which was wonderful. Creative writing is also a really strong department; my CSEM (college seminar, a required class for frosh) professor is part of that department and he was wonderful.</p>
<p>Someone asked about academics, and I think it's sort of a mixed bag. We are one of the most academically intense schools in the nation, and if you don't want to do work, this is - flat out - not the place for you. That said, the academic horror stories at Bryn Mawr are, at least in my experience, somewhat exaggerated. You will have a lot of work, and you will need to manage your time wisely, but I never had to skip out on things that I wanted to do because I had too much to do, and I was never in a position where I had to stay up at night to do work. I'm also working eight to ten hours a week on top of classes, with a schedule that's full of other things. I think it's important not to procrastinate - I got my anthro reading done over the weekends rather than doing it at night - and it really helps to do work ahead of time, but it's manageable.</p>
<p>And, with dorms... reslife usually does a really good job of giving you what you need. There are a lot of different types of dorms with a lot of different types of rooms; there are singles, doubles, triples, and quads. Singles are usually relatively small, doubles come in basically two shapes - one room, where two people share a room, and two room, which can mostly be found in one particular dorm, with one smaller room and one larger one. Triples have three rooms for three people, and quads have three rooms for four people. I'm currently living with one other person in a triple, because one of my roommates left toward the beginning of the semester for health reasons. I feel like roommates are often hit or miss, but they are fantastic at putting you in the dorm and living space that you need to be in. I cannot really fathom why my roommate and I were put together - she's an incredibly nice person but we're wildly different people with wildly different living styles - but I am really happy with where I'm living and my room. And if things don't work out, and things sometimes don't work out, transfers are always possible, so don't freak out about it too much. They'll put you where you need to be.</p>
<p>Congratulations again - I'm so excited for all of you!</p>