Library Session

This week for class, we met in the library seminar room which proved to be a nice change from the crowed Roush classroom. I really enjoyed this week's class because it really held my attention. I especially liked the presentation done by Judge Mary DeGenaro.

I enjoyed all of the presenters. The information library session with Judy Carey Nevin was interesting because it made me wonder about being a librarian briefly; regardless, that's not for me. Next, we learned about volunteering on campus from Melissa Gilbert and more about our mentoring project which was good to learn about because I've been very curious about what's going to happen with that because I've never done anything like it before. That session was nice because we got to get up and change scenes by doing a group theater activity. From that I learned that no matter how different women may seem from one another, we all have the same insecurities and concerns about ourselves. We also listened to a presentation about women in Otterbein's history which I thought was very interesting because I loved looking at the old pictures of Tower's hall and all of the women. It made me prouder to be going to Otterbein to learn that their first two graduates were women in that day and age.

My favorite was hearing from Judge DeGenaro because of the way that I thought of her as her presentation progressed. At the beginning, I thought she was going to talk all about her job and what she did which I thought was going to be a little hard to pay attention to. As she began talking about her job, I started to understand more about the judicial system in which she served, but she began to also talk about her family and her life while she was doing that job. She talked about how, because of her family, she took a pay cut in order to spend more time with her children while they were young. I loved her point of view on women in the workplace and completely agree with her. Feminists would have seen her taking the pay cut for her family as a surrender to the male domination in our society; but, she said simply that having a family and working at the same time did not mean she was any less of a strong, independent women or caring mother and wife, and that you can be the same at the both time.