Hello readers! When I was brushing my teeth this morning, musing on possible topics for this week’s blog post (a disturbingly routine Friday morning activity for me), I realized that I’ve never talked about the details of my major. While I’m not sure you really want to hear about everything I don’t talk about here, neuroscience is a happily growing…
Category: Science
Applications, Abroad, and See you in the Spring!
Hello readers! It has been a restful two weeks for me :). My younger sisters go back to high school on Monday, and while I wish I were still here to mock them by lazing about at home, alas, I head back to Boston early Monday morning. I will miss hanging out with everyone! The first few days of my…
School’s out, Welcome, and Snow!
Good morning, readers! “Wow, aren’t you up early, Monica?” You might ask. For when reading period and finals come around, my schedule goes something like this: get up. Do some research and/or math. Eat brunch. Do lots more math. Eat dinner, workout. Do physics. Go to bed sometime in the early morning. Sleep and repeat! However, I finished both of…
Reevaluation and Registration
Before I get to the more serious stuff, I thought I’d tell you about my halloween. I’m not the biggest fan of halloween — I haven’t ever really enjoyed it in the past, and didn’t think I would this year either. But I ended up going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show “viewing” on Wednesday and it was a lot…
Thank God for Distribution Requirements
Wellesley is a liberal arts college, so we students are expected to learn many things across many subjects, in the hopes of broadening our horizons, learning how to think, and with luck developing our problem-solving skills in a way that will aid us in any endeavor in our future. However, many students here, particularly the science ones, veer away from…
if day
% Hello readers! I’m writing in Matlab syntax today. Matlab is my only programming % language, thus making it my favorite. Its concepts are fairly simple: % signals % comments, which is any writing not actually executed when the code is run. “If-then” % statements are self-explanatory: if something…
School’s Out!
Dear readers, SCHOOL IS OUT! Thank goodness. I love school, but that’s easier said as a blanket statement than when you’re about to take a two-and-a-half hour final. I was very lucky and only had two finals, Neuro 320 and Organic Chemistry II, along with two final projects, one for Making a Difference through Engineering (WE-lab!) and one for Computer…
Science Rules
Good morning readers! How are you all? It’s sunny and warmish at Wellesley, so I can’t complain :). (Warmish being even better than warm, because we have a distinct lack of air conditioning in the dorms… though I of course can always beat a hasty retreat to the Science Center, which employs air conditioning almost year round :P). Speaking of…
Ambition
“The problem with Monica is she wants to have her cake and eat it too.” Oddly enough, I’ve never been criticized for having too much ambition before. I’ve been criticized for a great number of things, most of which I’ve attempted to fix within my twenty years of development, but I’ve never encountered an external criticism of my choice of…
Birthdays and Why Wellesleys
Good morning readers! Hope all is well! I survived my crazy week, plus today’s my birthday, so I’m suitably delighted :). Moreover, I even had a pre-birthday celebration, since Alice bought me cake and earrings last night! I took the remains to the Science Center, and there were many shenanigans that went on there…. I have even more great pictures…