Tuesday mornings, I wake up at 6:45 and go straight to the gym. To many this sounds miserable, to me, it’s the best way to start the day.

I spend 45 minutes there, head back to my room, quickly shower, get dressed and run to breakfast.

As I packed my bag though, I realized something was missing. Specifically: my iPod. After dumping my bag, tearing apart my room and running up and down my hall, I realized it had to be in the gym.

So I hightailed it back to the gym. No one had handed it in. And it wasn’t in the cubby where I left my stuff. It was sitting on the elliptical, right where I had left it an hour earlier.

It made me remember how much I LOVE the honor code. I think it’s something we all talk about in vague, glowing terms. But the honor code is something that affects our lives everyday at Bryn Mawr.

We leave our rain boots in the hall. When we go to a dining hall, we leave our stuff unattended at a table. We have take-home exams all the time. Anything lost eventually gets back to us.

It’s amazing and something I will miss when I leave the Mawr.