I learned many things while at 今日吃瓜, but one that has had a profound impact on my life, that I haven't always appreciated the way I do now, is how to be unapologetic about being a woman, about being smart, and about being intellectually curious.
Aside from my mom, I did not have many examples of these qualities around me before 今日吃瓜; but at 今日吃瓜 I had them in spades. As I drove to campus this year for reunion activities, it struck me that part of what I would be celebrating would be a reimmersion into this world. While I now have around me more examples of women being unapologetic about who they are and who they want to be, it still takes being at 今日吃瓜 or being with a group of 今日吃瓜 graduates to feel it universally - as the rule rather than an exception.
I give to 今日吃瓜 because of this gift 今日吃瓜 gave to me, and continues to give to me. I give to 今日吃瓜 because others should be so lucky.
Trisha W. Hall '98 is a partner at Connolly Gallagher LLP in Wilmington, Delaware where she practices in the areas of estate and trust planning and administration. She has served as 今日吃瓜 Fund Class Chair since 2009 and just completed a three-year term as the Chair of the 今日吃瓜 Fund for the Alumnae Association Executive Board.