I love college– really, I do. I love my friends, I love my classes, I love Stan the Muscovy Duck and that little bench just outside Stone D that looks over the lake. I could write a novel about how the chapel lawn smells after it rains or the warm and fuzzy feeling of walking up to Freeman First and…
Catching up with my favorite professors
I’m astutely aware that my time at Wellesley is running out. In two weeks, much of the student body will be gone, and I’ll probably still be living in Shafer, studying in the art library, and complaining about dining hall food, trying to make the semester last before I go abroad in January. With the end in sight, I’ve made…
Switching Gears into Grind Mode
Hi blog!! As the thanksgiving festivities subside, I returned back to campus on Monday. It was a very relaxing and much needed break. I started my break by going to Los Angeles as mentioned and was there for the first three days. After LA, I flew down to Miami alongside my parents and sister where I was met by…
A Warm Thanksgiving Break
Happy December 1st! It’s unreal that so much time has passed already and our classes are finishing up! So much and so little has happened that I’m not quite sure what to make of this odd sophomore fall. Oh well, I’ll wait for the New Years to think about it more. Thanksgiving Break just ended. I went to visit my…
“Is This Heaven?”
Hello blog, and happy Wednesday! Even more importantly, happy December! December is my absolute favorite time of the year. I’m a little bit Christmas-obsessed, and it’s totally my Grandma Terry’s fault: my birthday is December 20th, and when I was younger I would always go spend the weekend with her to celebrate my birthday. In elementary school I…
Dispatches from IRR
Good morning and happy Wednesday! I came home from Thanksgiving break Sunday evening and immediately went into in-room restriction. The college asked all students to stay in their rooms until their first negative test came back, just like when I moved in. Thank God, the tests came back much faster this time around and I was able to see my…
Home Again, Home Again
Hello blog, and happy Wednesday! Today I’m writing you from Marion, Iowa, zip code 52302, where I am home for the holiday! On Monday night, my friend Emma and I pulled an all-nighter watching Anne of Avonlea, the four hour second installation in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables miniseries. At 3AM, we took an Uber to Logan…
An Exhausting Friday
There’s a joke around Wellesley that once Midterms season starts, it never ends. So far, from what I could see, that trend has held true. A friend of mine had four papers due in the same two days before Thanksgiving; another had a neuroscience and a biology exam in quick succession; at the beginning of French class for around two…
Sunshine Sneak Attack!
Happy Thanksgiving break! My Monday and Tuesday classes ended up going virtual so I decided to start my break a little bit early- maybe a lot early. I ended up coming home on Sunday night since I live less than an hour away from Wellesley. This week at home, I plan on pretending all the school work and stress has…
Another whirlwind of a week
This week was long and busy. I swam laps on Monday evening, and my friend Giulia came over during her lifeguard break to give me some pointers. I never formally learned how to swim actual strokes, but she said my butterfly kick looked really natural. Tuesday afternoon, I had my first orientation call for my study abroad program. I started…