Hello hello! Hope everyone had an enjoyable break. I was back in California all last week, and it was a great change. I rested, hiked, ate, slept, read…basically everything one should do when back home. I’m ready to finish the semester – only two more weeks until the last day of classes! On the Saturday before break, my friends and…
Category: Travel
How did I get here?
So how did I get here? Besides the obvious answer of flying, in this post, I want to briefly outline some of the steps to applying and finally going abroad. The abroad process should start the summer before sophomore year. You should really start thinking about where you would like to go and what your goals are for that location.…
I declared! And other news…
Hello hello! Today, I’m writing to you as an official Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences major! I declared my major last Thursday night. Although the process was quite simple, I skyped with my family in Clapp library and my friend was there the entire time, so the moment was quite memorable! The deadline to declare a major is December 1st of…
The Wellesley-Boston Commute
This week, I thought I would talk about the shuttle that runs hourly from Wellesley to Boston during the weekdays, the MIT Exchange Bus. In the past, it had (endearingly) been referred to as The Peter, the college’s collective favorite ~boy~. This year, however, the school decided to try out new company, and I would say, as a frequent user…
I am in Dakar !
Hello everyone: I hope you all have had a great summer! This semester I am studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal and I am very happy to be here. I have been having a great time so far. I decided to go to Senegal because I am dead set on finally being fluent in French. I am close but not quite.…
Spring Break Sunshine
Hello from sunny Miami! It’s spring break, and yours truly is finally having a much-needed reunion with warm weather and a few days of relaxation. I’m writing to you on the tail end of my vacation: I’m spending five days in Florida forgetting about my many responsibilities… and five days in the thesis lab back in Boston, trying to get…
Twenty Two
I turned twenty two last Thursday. At first, I woke up and looked out the window and felt a little older. And then I immediately remembered that I had left my Western blots in the wrong buffer last night leaving the lab, and hoped they were okay (they were). Maybe that’s what being twenty two is. A combination of feeling…
Life Updates
Hello! After six weeks of break and one week of classes, I’m finally back on the blog. This semester I’m doing something a little different– taking five classes. Before I talk about that, though, I feel like I should do a brief re-cap of what happened while I was gone: I worked at a spin studio back home. It was…
Vasilopita. The Good Luck Cake.
Second semester senior year is realizing that you have an 8:30am biochemistry class Monday morning… approximately 12 hours before the first day of class begins. Yes, this was an actual thing that happened. Let me explain. You would think that, as a second semester senior, I would be coming back from a month long Wintersession break refreshed and put together.…