Hi Blog Readers,
This week was the last week of classes here at Wellesley! The next couple days are reading period, which is time to study for finals. Final exam period starts next week on Monday and is until Thursday.
I already took my final exam for Hindi and completed my final group presentation for my MIT course. For my MIT entrepreneurship course (read my recent blog post about it!), our final class was last week, and we did a group presentation on our work this semester. We will be doing a short Zoom presentation on our work to our company this week.
As for my other courses, I have a final exam for my statistics course and a final paper for my economics course. The exam is in-person, and I am flying back home on Tuesday, so I plan to take it on Monday. Wish me luck!
My statistics exam is on probability, and it is a cumulative final, meaning we will be tested on material from the whole semester. My economics paper is actually quite unique—we have chosen a famous economist who we think deserves a Nobel Prize in Economics, and our paper will be about their research and arguing why they deserve the prize.
What I like about in-person final exams at Wellesley is that many of them are self-scheduled. This means that from Monday to Thursday, there are time slots that you can show up to the Science Center and take it there in the exam rooms; it is up to you to plan out your time and decide when to take the exam. I think it shows a lot of the trust that Wellesley places in us with our Honor Code.
Overall, this semester has been good, hectic, and bittersweet since this is my last fall semester here. I am looking forward to winter break: I will be going back home to Illinois, and my cousins will be celebrating Christmas with us, which will be super fun!
I will actually be back on campus in January one week early because I am participating in Upskill: AI for Social Impact, a Wellesley Career Center program that takes place right before the spring semester starts. I will go more in depth about Upskill next semester when I can recap it, but it is basically a four-day crash course program in a specific career track that Wellesley students can apply to do. I did the Upskill: Investment Banking program as a sophomore (read my old blog post mentioning it!), and I am excited to explore another track this time.
Thank you so much for reading my blog posts this fall. I hope everyone has a great holidays, and I look forward to being back here next semester!