Category: Mara’s Blog

10 things that make Wellesley, Wellesley

Ice cream endowment. Like… you can get ice cream every day (!!!!!). We’re the only school in the US that has had only female presidents 😉 +60% of faculty are WOMEN. WE LOVE TO SEE REPRESENTATION. Drag shows organized by students. Yes. FREE CONCERT on every LDOC (Last Day of Classes). We’ve had Muna, Charlie XCX, Dua Lipa, among others.…

STEM (classes I’ve taken) at Wellesley

Fall: Quantitative Reasoning (QR 140) with 20 people I took this class because I didn’t pass the quantitative reasoning test. As detailed in our website for QR, “Quantitative reasoning is required in virtually all academic fields, is used in most every profession, and is necessary for decision-making in everyday life. The Quantitative Reasoning Program is designed to ensure that Wellesley…

Summer life at Wellesley :)

During the summer, I’m working for the admission office as an Admission Summer Intern (ASI), which is really fun 🙂 I love the people at the office! My supervisors, my fellow ASIs, and I went candlepin bowling once, which is like normal bowling but with smaller balls and pins, (it’s, apparently, a New England thing). But what I especially LOVE…

Mara takes a selfie outside with a grey sky background.

Mara’s First Blog!

Hi all! My name is Mara (she/they), and I’m an international student from Paraguay, in South America, aka your local Latina friend ;). I’m part of the purple class (’26), and I’m also a prospective neuroscience major—so very excited to talk about science at Wellesley and what not! Before Wellesley, I had never been to the United States before, so…

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