It’s towards the latter days of finals period, and campus has already started to empty out for the holidays. Watching my friends leave is always difficult, made worse by the fact that as I’m going abroad, I won’t see them for months. It isn’t made better by the fact that while they’re snapchatting reunions with their dogs, I’m mostly stuck in the library, semi-lonely and with only my statistics textbook and Constant Comment tea for company.
The good news about this time to myself, however, is that it makes me astonishingly productive. Today, I wrote the entirety of my 10 page paper in 4 hours. Granted, I had probably already spent 24 hours researching theory of mind error and cognitive satisfaction in Pride and Prejudice, and I had outlined the whole thing already. But I can’t tell you how good it felt to get another final off my chest and onto the word document; even if it does need some revision. I’ve already taken Genetics, so all I have left is my Statistics exam. So yes, I will be spending the next two days essentially learning how to become a human version of Excel. I’m determined to find something good in this time though, and the best I can say is that there is something relaxing about methodically working my way towards the right answers.
Let me tell you some of the ways I’ve been impromptu letting off some stress this finals period. First off, my visits to Pet World have dramatically spiked. The night before my genetics exam, we had a sincere, almost desperate desire to see some cats. So we took the fifteen minute drive over to Pet World, and waved feather toys to play with the rescue cats there. I have an embarrassing level of familiarity with the cats at Pet World. I know all their personalities, and though I haven’t named them yet, there’s the kitten, the majestic one, and my favorite sweet cat, who looks like an honest guy. My other impromptu fun was that I went to my first acapella concert over at MIT. The group was the MIT Logarhythms (get it?). I don’t know much about acapella, but I was pretty impressed with the singing and the moves going on. The evening was somewhat dampered by me shattering my phone screen trying to run for the Peter Pan bus (a classic Wellesley moment), but I’m still glad I got to have one last Boston excursion for my junior year.
MIT is kind of good at this technology special effects thing (the swirls were moving)
Wishing you all a very happy, relaxing, and restorative holidays! Even though the semester has ended, I’ll be spending three weeks working at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia Presbyterian before jetsetting off to Copenhagen. The Berrie Center is where I worked last summer, and one of my favorite places in the world, and I didn’t get to take you there much as I wasn’t blogging then. But now, I can! Looking forward to showing you around.
This is where I get to work! <3
Ever lovely yours,
Eleanor