My name is Margot (she/her) and I am a first year at Bryn Mawr. I’m from Eugene, Oregon. Eugene is a small city in the Willamette Valley. It's a two hour drive from Portland, from the cold, often grey, but beautiful Pacific coast, and from lush forested mountains. Eugene is also home to the University of Oregon, where I’ve been immersed since I was a baby. The pairing of university-affiliated migrants to the city and its location in the Pacific Northwest make Eugene a largely liberal, very hippie city. As a kid, I went to hippie nature camps and toured salmon hatcheries in the rain and mud. Eugene has an easy-going collective personality and prides unconventionality and underplays the importance of conventional success. (This is both a blessing and a curse.) I do love my hometown; I have a tattoo of a chinook salmon to commemorate my home region. I love outdoor sports like hiking and kayaking as well as team sports like basketball and volleyball. I have two younger sisters, ages 17 and 8. I play classical violin and fiddle. I love watching movies, and also reading about their histories.
