Archivist note: Originally published on the Elections WordPress site. Apr 19, 2014 @ 21:53, “Class of 2015 Songs Mistress/Master/Mistex”
Syona Arora
Dear Bryn Mawr Class of 2015,
I wish we never had to leave. I wish we could live in this perpetual limbo of edging closer and closer to the Senior Steps and humming the first few bars of Bread and Roses, but come May Day we will be able to claim the Steps as our own and by Parade Night it will be us with the bottles and the tears. Apathetic seniors? Not at Step Sing.
When Lantern Night rolls around, I know what to do. As a freshman Night Owl I taught Sophias to my peers, and for the past two years I’ve struggled my way through singing Pallas Athena and figuring out how to swing a lantern. I’ve seen the Traditions mistresses confused by the serpentine, and heard my Songsmistress predecessors complain about the first-years’ lack of voice one too many times.
Finally, I would love nothing more than to walk in the May Day procession for a fourth and final time as Senior Songsmistress, looking back on a year that will undoubtedly be the best. I hope that y’all will have faith that we can make it happen.
Love love love love love,
Syona Arora (sarora@brynmawr.edu)