We got snow! The first snow of the year on campus always has magical feel about it, even for someone like me, intimidated enough by last year’s 100 inches to be quite content with unseasonal warmth. Still, walking to breakfast this morning, dodging snowplows while listening to Tchaikovsky’s “Winter Reveries” Symphony, I couldn’t help but smile at the beauty that…
Category: Eleanor’s Blog Archive
A new semester of sciencing
It’s Friday afternoon, and you know what that means… this girl right here has officially wrapped up her first week of classes! This semester, I’m taking some pretty intimidating science courses (Organic Chemistry and Cell Bio, I’m looking at you). But my lab advisor gave me some good advice that I’m trying to stick to: “Don’t worry about what everybody…
A snowy return
Hello everyone! As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in Metropark train station, checking the status of my Boston-bound warrior train bravely (but three hours slowly) making its way up the East coast mid blizzard. Oddly enough, this storm isn’t hitting Boston too hard…but New Jersey is certainly taking a hit. We almost got stuck in a snowbank twice trying to…
Finishing finals and fun to come
Remember how I said I would be done with finals the next time I wrote to you? Well, this post may be coming to you a little later than usual, but I did keep my promise! I just handed in my last exam all of ten minutes ago. Dobby is a free elf! It’s definitely hard to muster up the…
Accomplishments, reassurance, and wrapping up the semester
Welcome, welcome to the first members of the Red Class of 2020! We are so very excited to have you join the Wellesley community! For some advice for the next eight months in between, I refer you back to my open letter to early applicants, in which I tell you all the things I wish I knew in the limbo-months…
Overcoming the overwhelming
Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m coming to you live from what is referred to by many as “the most stressful week in the semester,” the final week of classes. Personally, I have two 8-page papers to write in the next four days (not that I haven’t been working on them already, of course). The first is…
On coming home
Hello everyone! I hope you had a delightful and restful thanksgiving. This post is coming to you somewhat later than usual, but I have a wonderful excuse; I just got back from a long catching up session (over Panera!) with my two best friends from high school. Even if it’s only for a couple days, it’s wonderful to be home,…
Jam sessions, symphonies and getting things together
Good morning to all of you! At least its still morning as I write here, one of those rare mornings where it seems New England has rediscovered impossibly blue skies. Walking to my blog-writing seat in admissions from Philosophy class, I witnessed a Wellesley student rescuing a fuzzy little brown and black caterpillar from an oncoming admissions tour on the…
Collective frazzled spirit
There’s a collective frazzled spirit on campus this week. The days leading up to a break are always a stressful time, and no matter how much anyone tries to avoid it, midterms and papers always seem to line up simultaneously. Personally, my weekend will be divided between a full lab report on the random vs. directed mutation hypothesis in the…
Since we last spoke
Happy November, everyone! Last week I wrote an open letter to all of you applying early decision, which I hope proved helpful and/or reassuring to a few of you. But that means you’re not just two weeks behind on weevil updates, and all the cool stuff I’m doing in lab and the fact that I have a major advisor now…