Hey all! This semester I’m taking a class at one of the schools Wellesley students can cross register at: MIT. The seminar is called “Conversations You Can’t Have in The Class Room” and is taught by an administrator within the Political Science department. And so far, it’s been a great experience. With that being said, sometimes the bus ride on…
Category: Music
Sculpture and Sunshine
Daylight’s savings time has now arrived in Denmark, bringing with it ridiculously long days to contrast with the fleetingly short days of my arrival. It’s already 8:30pm as I write this, and the sun has yet to completely disappear below the horizon. Today felt like full on summer. I brought my book out into the sun on the front porch…
I am a DJ!
WZLY is Wellesley College’s student-run radio station. Students have shows on the station where they play music or have interviews. After a semester of interning, each intern can get their own show. There are tons of DJ’s on board and they play all types of music. It’s a great group of people to be with. I spent last semester interning…
Live from the Royal Danish Academy of Music!
There’s a Mozart concerto is floating above my head. Quite literally, I’m sitting in the library of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where I’m taking two classes this semester. Some violinist is playing Mozart 5 and it’s sparkling and everything, weaving its ways through the walls above. The librarian is speaking in rapid Danish. I cannot make out a…
Monday, Through Music
I woke up this morning to a Wellesley wonderland- snow! Somehow, it’s already December, and winter has decided to make its official entrance. You would think, as somebody who’s lived on the East Coast my whole life, I would be prepared for the winter onslaught each year…but somehow I feel caught off guard each year by the first snowfall. Still,…
Flappers, Tanners, and Acceptances, oh my!
Happy Halloween! With it being a Monday, and most of the festivities happening over the weekend, it already feels like Halloween has passed, so much so that I wondered why someone wearing a creepy skull mask and flowing black robes waved to me on my way to class this morning. And then I remembered, oh, it’s still Halloween, which was…
Chasing Seagulls and Perfection
It feels like I just took a final exam. Since some of you haven’t experienced walking out of a final exam at Wellesley, there’s this moment when you walk outside after, that you can’t believe the world can be so still when your brain is still going a million miles an hour. It’s a surreal moment. And there’s a sense…
Broken bows, crude oil, and waterfalls
Hello everyone! I’m a little frazzled, because a little over an hour ago, as I was warming up my violin to rehearse with piano, my bow hair just snapped. Just snapped! You can see the photo below, although it actually pains me to look at. It’s like looking at an x-ray of a broken bone or something. This incident is…
Concerts and Cell Bio
Another Friday almost done! If it seems like my blog posts are getting later than later, it’s because for the past month or so, as part of my final project for my ethnomusicology I’ve been going into Boston to volunteer and observe an El Sistema music education program at a local charter school. Because this is a public platform, and…