There are two more weeks left until Thanksgiving Break. That also means that every one of my professors is trying to shove every assessment right before Thanksgiving – which is just lovely. I know Thanksgiving will feel a lot better with all those papers out of the way. But the problem is that those papers are not out of the…
Category: Cynthia’s Blog
A Not-So-Homesick Halloween
There’s always an image in my head of what Halloween is supposed to look like. It’s in the tacky skeleton and stretchy spider web decorations brought out every year after hibernating in dusty attics, the spooky ghost cutouts taped onto each high school teacher’s door. It culminates in the elementary school costume parade and mummy-wrapping activities led almost exclusively by…
Live Music and a Twenty One Pilots Concert
No matter in what form or genre, live music always brings me joy. Wellesley features several live music clubs including acapella groups like the Tupelos and Wellesley Widows, ensembles like the Chamber Music Society (which I am a part of!) and BlueJazz, choirs like the Wellesley College Choir, and really cool groups like the Guild of Carillonneurs and Yanvalou. The…
Apple-Picking in October with Zeta Alpha
There have been too many days at Wellesley where it looked so beautiful outside – when sunlight would filter perfectly through the tree leaves and Lake Waban would glisten as though it were covered in glitter. On too many of those days, I stayed in and studied instead, wallowing with fellow Wellesley peoples in the packed Clapp library. But, this…
Work Hard, Play Mildly Hard While Trying Not to Dwell on the Guilt of Not Working
My roommate and I have a joke that every time we have been to Boston, three out of three times, we took a pit-stop at the TJ Maxx right by the Hynes Convention Center station. Of all places to go, we end up in the red and white aisles every time, poking fun at the blindingly colorful array of flannels,…
Mac&Cheese for Thought
Yep, this was from one of those days. Actually, this entire week was (and still is – I mean, it’s only Wednesday) a bit of a drag. I got assigned my first two essays (which isn’t much compared to the rest of Wellesley’s humanities majors’ workloads) and I had spent far too many hours battling a NEUR100 problem set. A few…
Belonging
It’s difficult to find where you belong, or even to figure out if you belong at all. I wish it were as easy as belting out Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” as soon as I set foot on campus, but it really isn’t! My first day at Wellesley College, I arrived a few days early on a Saturday because…
Hello From a Confused Sophomore
Hello! It’s nice to meet you. I’m Cynthia – no nicknames, no silly business. I’m 19. I was born in Canada, and I grew up in Shanghai, China. I spent a good 12 years of my life in Shanghai American School, and now I’m here – a rising sophomore at Wellesley College. My first year in college was a little…