Good morning!
I assumed that I would have far too much time on my hands after the mock trial season ended, but my last couple of weeks on campus have already filled up. I have every assignment in the world due next week which means a lot of preparation this week. Fingers crossed that this is the last stretch of midterms before finals season starts though.
Last weekend- my first weekend since the season ended- I got together with a couple of friends from the mock trial team and went to Boston. Wellesley runs a shuttle between campus and Cambridge so students can cross-register at MIT. It’s free during the week, but they keep it running through the weekend for a few dollars a ride. We stopped by a Wellesley-favorite thrift store, Boomerang, before grabbing the red line to Chinatown. We just walked around a window shopped for a while before grabbing dinner and heading back home.
It’s pretty common for people to spend their weekends in Boston to the point that campus looks like a ghost town some weekends. In all honesty though, I have never understood the appeal of going into the city every single weekend. Once in a while, like last weekend, it’s fun to just bop around the city without any particular agenda. Maybe it’s because I have been so busy most weekends or maybe it’s because I grew up so close to the city anyway, but I have never understood why so many siblings go into the city all the time. I also am just very much not a city girl. Part of why I loved Wellesley was that it seemed so secluded from the world and surrounded by gorgeous scenery. It can get boring, but it can also be so peaceful and relaxing to just exist on campus some weekends.
On the agenda for the rest of the week: seeing a friend’s thesis play on Friday night, the Latinx culture show, the Shakespeare Society is putting on Twelfth Night this Saturday, three papers due on Monday, an exam on Tuesday, a trip to the MFA, and then registration (God help me).
With love,
Jessie