Welcome back to weekly updates from real Wellesley College students! It’s been a while since my last post… close to two months, I think! Not only that, but the past few weeks have been busy due to the simple fact that I am graduating! Like it or not I will be walking the walk in exactly four months. I will…
Category: Courses
Wintersession in Paris
Classes start next week but I wanted to give you an update on what I have been doing since I last wrote on the blog. For the first two weeks of January, I was in Paris as part of the French department’s Wintersession class on Parisien film culture. The class is called Paris, CinéCity and allowed us to discuss Parisien film culture…
End of Semester *Vibes*
First of all… CONGRATULATIONS to all of my new Wellesley siblings! I am so excited for you all to be a part of the siblinghood. In honor of finals season being upon us and the semester ending, I made a new playlist! Here is my winter/study/end of semester playlist! I hope you enjoy. xoxo, caroline
Silver Linings
Somehow, it’s December already. On one hand, I’m excited, because it’s now socially acceptable to listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.” On the other hand, all I want for Christmas is to make it through two fifteen page papers and an inorganic chemistry final intact, so I can go home and lie on the floor…
Declaring My Major
I am finally a college student! I officially declared my major as a Peace and Justice Studies Major with a concentration in International Human Rights. I finally feel like a legitimate college student because I have a purpose; something to shape my classes around. The best part about attending a liberal arts school is the majors and areas of study.…
Class Trip 2.0
This past Saturday, my peace and justice class took a trip to a community organization in Boston called DSNI. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is an organization that we had been studying in our class. The organization serves to advocate for the people of the Dudley Street neighborhood in Boston. The people in that community are mostly immigrants, people…
Visit to Haystack
My ASTRO physics class recently took a trip to the Haystack Observatory. The trip was on a Saturday, so my class of about 8 people and my professor piled into a Wellesley van and drove there. On the way there and back, we talked about black holes, dark matter (which is what our class is focused on) and the possibility…