Ailsa's travel theme this week at Where's My Backpack? focuses on International Women's Day.  Awesome.When I finally decided to get my butt back into school, I had the very good fortune to go to Wellesley College.  Yes, it's a women's college.  Wellesley is academically top-notch, I got to study a subject that I loved, it opened up whole new fields of interests for me that I didn't know I had until I got there, and I was surrounded by amazingly intelligent, funny, interesting women of all ages and backgrounds and orientations and histories, who never seem to want to stop learning and growing.The school is still a source of mental strength for me.  I go back and visit when I can; it's an astonishingly beautiful campus.  And the lessons I learned while I was there are with me to this day.  Going there wasn't "easy" in the traditional sense of the word--I lost a ton of sleep to late-night cram sessions and smoked five times as many cigarettes as I should have--but it was one of the best things I have ever done for myself.