Hey, ladies, need some advice about how to have a fabulous college experience? Here's some words of wisdom to help you out!

Take Yourself Seriously

Here's something to keep in the back of your mind: women before you fought long and hard so that you could have the opportunity to go to college and to be taken seriously. For women who were lucky enough to go to college in the early-to-mid twentieth century, expectations were that they were only there for an M.R.S. degree-- i.e. to find a husband. And women were actively discouraged from majoring in just about anything that might lead to a career in anything but education, nursing, and home economics. Thanks to the women's movement of the 1970s, along with thousands of young women over the years who braved the system and demanded they be taken seriously, women now have a much easier time in college.

Appreciate what these women did for you by taking yourself seriously. Never play down your intelligence! In all sorts of subtle and not so subtle ways, women are taught to be "nonthreatening" by keeping their thoughts and opinions to themselves. Don't do this! Anyone who likes you less because of your intelligence is not worth an iota of your time.

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