Welcome! I'm Celeste Bloom, I graduated from Bryn Mawr College '24 with a B.A in Literatures in English with a creative writing concentration, and a sociology minor. This portfolio includes published poetry, prose, mixed-media as well as podcast episodes I've hosted/contributed to.
Published in The Bookends Review, Summer 2025
Published in A Good Little Girls Zine & China's Children International, Spring 2023
In this episode, we invited History Professor Ignacio Gallup-Diaz and Sociology Professor Veronica Montes to share their thoughts on student activism at the College, inspired by the Palestine solidarity encampment (The People’s College) at Bryn Mawr College this spring. Gallup-Diaz and Montes identify patterns and changes within administrative response to student activism over the years discussing the encampment within the legacy of the 2020 strike. The professors situate campus events within a sociopolitical context and recount how student activism throughout their life transformed personal philosophies and pedagogy. Finally, Gallup-Diaz and Montes share their hopes for future institutional changes at Bryn Mawr.
Join your new host Celeste Bloom ('24) as she reflects on her academic, social, and extracurricular regrets as a second-semester senior. This episode will unpack the meaning of regret, reframing it away from guilt and shame, and instead, using it as a way to become present. This episode will also confront regret within Bryn Mawr's challenging academic environment.
Travel down memory lane with us, as we reminisce about working at New Dorm starting out as first years during the pandemic and ending as seniors about to graduate. Grace and Ali share many funny, silly, and heartwarming memories from their four years working in dining. Grace and Ali also discuss their experiences in leadership and how to navigate the personal and professional within a small community such as Bryn Mawr.
In this episode we will be reacting to and discussing various Bryn Mawr scenarios or problems students could face day to day. This episode will be in the style of Michelle Burkey's podcast in which she responds to anonymous Reddit submissions recounting morally complicated scenarios. We plan to cover a range of topics including social life, friendships, roommate issues, dating, academic pathways, Eboards, jobs/employment etc.
Tune in as Yeri, Celeste, and Anna talk about all the dorms at Bryn Mawr and their tips on room draw and more!
Listen to Yeri's farewell episode as she reflects on her life as a Bryn Mawr student. Yeri shares her experiences during the pandemic, and her academic journey, and reminisces on her time being the host for What's Up Bryn Mawr.
Published in The Write Launch, November 2024, Issue 89
