Campus has become so green, and I love it. I’ve been taking pictures of a tree next to Beebe as I hike the hill up to the quad. Its leaves came in so fast. Here’s an update since my last pic of this tree two weeks ago. I only have two more days of class in my undergraduate career. It…
Category: Having Fun
Sunshine, regattas, and MarMon
I had a busy week! The highlights include unseasonal warmth and sunshine, two regattas in two days, and my second and final Marathon Monday. Earlier this week, the sun came out blazing and temps hit the high 80s. Every minute I spent indoors felt like a waste. I went for a sunny bike ride, waded in the lake, and met…
New littles, s’mores, party, and brunch
Today marks three years since Wellesley students found out we were getting sent home because of covid (back when we still called it coronavirus). The email went out in the middle of my Portuguese class. Chaos ensued. When my classmates and I graduate in May, hardly anyone on campus will have known a pre-covid Wellesley. I wonder how much institutional…
Bookworms are real
Here are some fun facts I learned this week: bookworms are a real thing, and Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” came out in 2002. It was the first song I loved, but not until ‘08 or ‘09, when I remember plopping in front of my family’s desktop to watch a lyric video on repeat. The background was orange, I think, and…
The Penultimate Post
Hello blog, and happy Monday! This is my second to last post of the year, which seems very quick and kind of crazy. I have one Saturday left on the Wellesley campus before I head back home to Iowa, and I have a feeling it’ll past much faster and much slower than I would like it to. Before…
The Countdown Begins
Hello blog, and happy Monday! It was a beautiful spring day in Massachusetts today, and while I spent most of it inside at the Computing Help Desk in Clapp Library, I have managed to get outside quite a bit in the past week. Last Tuesday, my friend Emma and I took a walk as far as we could around…
Monday, Monday
Hello blog, and happy Monday! In the interest of full transparency, I think it’s important that I let you know I’m actually writing this post Sunday evening. I have a lot of assignments due at the front end of this week, and I’m really trying to stay on top of things by getting a couple of my usual Monday…
When I Touch the Water
Hello blog, and happy Monday! Today it was a beautiful 60 degrees and sort of sunny in Massachusetts; I spent most of the day at the Computing Help Desk in Clapp Library resetting passwords and sorting through tickets for more experienced tech support workers, so I unfortunately did not see much sun today. I did manage to get out…
February Seven
Hello blog, and happy Monday! Today marks my first post of February, which is very exciting to think about. We’re only one week away from one of the year’s best holidays: Valentine’s Day! I was always a huge Valentine’s Day as a kid. When I was in elementary school, we used to call our classroom Valentine parties “Friendship…
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Hello blog, and happy Monday! Wellesley is looking a little different today than it was last time I wrote: this weekend New England was hit by a blizzard and we got what I read was maybe sixteen inches of snow. Being from Iowa, this was much less of a big deal to me than it was to a lot…