To those of you applying early decision: I would like to start off by reassuring you, even if you don’t believe it yourself, that you are more than just your transcript, more than just your grades. I felt this so strongly in high school: that so much of my identity was based off of the quality of the work that…
Author: Eleanor
Standout moments from a (not so) typical week
I don’t have any grand international adventures for you this week. Well into the semester, everything feels familiar, like it couldn’t be any other way. I figured I would just describe a typical week in the life of a Wellesley student for you, but then I realized that my “typical” week actually involved synthesizing my own nylon, watching a silent…
Adventures in Montreal
It’s not every fall break you get to dig out your passport, but that’s what we did. “We” being me and four of my closest Wellesley friends; attempting to pull the kind of spontaneous college road trip you see in movies (without the car breaking down or anything). Not just any road trip, but a road trip to an exotic,…
Making Midterms Week Better
I’m not going to lie: I had to ask for the coffee machine in Pom to be refilled yesterday. It was 7:00…pm. This was the week of three midterms, and it was a daunting lineup: Evolution, Chemistry, and Economics, and a full scientific paper to top it off. Not exactly a walk in the park, or in the spirit of…
Five little Wellesley things that made my week
Five little Wellesley things that made my week 1) Burritos with a scale insect expert. Our weevil lab took a little lunch outing to Boloco with a professor from U Mass Amherst, who was coming to Wellesley to give one of the Biology department’s endowed lectures. He focuses on scale insects; how asexual reproduction correlates to the number of host…
Hi! I’m Eleanor
What are your thoughts on Gustav Mahler? No, but seriously, icebreakers aside, hi! I’m Eleanor. I’m currently a sophomore here at Wellesley. A little bit about me. I usually just tell people I live about forty minutes from New York City, because it sounds slightly more interesting than saying I come from a suburban town in northern New Jersey. But really,…