I’ve talked about being a student-athlete in this column before and my experiences being a woman in competitive sports. Overall, I have loved swimming at Stevens for the past three years.
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Claire
Even with the 23-24 school year more than halfway through, it’s never too late to get involved to get involved.
I find the idea of this column pretty daunting. I mean, how could I possibly write articles that are going to capture the experience of being a woman?
Claire:
I felt that this question was appropriate since both me and Ethan were sick recently so we both have some fresh experience feeling under the weather.
I haven’t talked about it yet in this column, but I’m a part of the Stevens Women’s Swim Team. Swimming has been an important part of my life since I joined a summer team about 14 years ago.
I come from a long line of girl bosses — that’s the best way to describe my family. My mom, her mom, and all the moms going back as far as memory goes have lived badass lives and raised their daughters to be the same.
Many people have heard of Transcendentalism, the brand of philosophy that centers around self-reliance, nature, and human experience. The concept was popularized by men like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and typically comes with a more masculine image.
Two years ago, I took a class called Psychology of Gender (I highly recommend it if anyone is interested), and it made me start to notice things that I hadn’t ever thought about before.
In 2014, Mary Cain was one of the fastest female runners in the world at the age of 17. After struggling with multiple injuries though, Cain had to stop running professionally.
Picture this: you’re scrolling through Instagram. Everything is chill on your feed, a normal mix of dog videos and reposted TikToks when all of a sudden, the algorithm decides to pull up a grainy Reddit screenshot where some man explains why women suck and should be in the kitchen.