Hello blog readers, happy 2025! I hope everyone reading this had an awesome holidays. If you are new here, my name is Tenzin, and I am a junior at Wellesley majoring in economics and minoring in statistics. I am excited to be back and blogging this semester! My winter break was great and restful. I went back home to Illinois…
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Post-Thanksgiving Reflections: Rest, Relaxation, and Resetting for Finals
Thanksgiving break came and went, but it left me with memories to savor and energy to carry me through the whirlwind of finals season. This year, I was lucky to experience something truly special: a trip to the Dominican Republic with my boyfriend’s family. It was the perfect mix of adventure, connection, and rejuvenation, and I couldn’t be more grateful.…
The Week Before Thanksgiving Break: Anticipation and the Promise of Rest
Hi all, As the days tick down to Thanksgiving break, there’s a palpable buzz in the air. Conversations around campus are filled with travel plans, family traditions, and favorite holiday dishes. The week before break feels like the final push before a much-needed pause—a chance to step off the treadmill of lectures, assignments, and meetings, even if only for a…
Looking Forward to Thanksgiving Break: Family, Friends, and New Adventures
Hi all, With Thanksgiving break just around the corner, I find myself looking forward to everything it brings—time to relax, moments to reconnect, and the chance to be with the people who matter most. After a busy semester, I can’t wait to leave the textbooks behind for a while, head home, and just enjoy each day as it comes. Coming…
Building Independence
Happy Halloween! I hope everyone has a fun and safe day. Today, I want to reflect on something not-so-spooky: building independence in college. Like many, coming to Wellesley is my first time fully living away from home. I live in Illinois, so I am a couple states away from my family. Up until Wellesley, I had only been away from…
Thanksgiving Break on Campus
Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a nice and stress-free Thanksgiving break if you celebrate that holiday. As I am an international student, I didn’t grow up with this holiday. So, this month was only the second time I ever celebrated it. I know that the origins of this holiday are complicated, but I do think that a holiday that…
Fall Break in Dakar
Last week I had my Fall break. I know that Wellesley students had their own a few weeks ago. Fall break marks a little over the halfway point of my time in Dakar. I have a little over six weeks left here and I do not want to leave yet. I am going to take the next few weeks to…
Fall break & flight bookings
Fall break is already coming to a close. Tomorrow morning, once again, I will find myself wedged on a Greyhound bus bound for Boston, as we creep our way past the places I’ve never visited but now have memorized-New Rochelle, Bridgeport, New Haven, Westerly, Kingstown. I’m so relaxed right now, which is part of the reason this update is coming so…
Tradeoffs
Whew – back from Thanksgiving break! It was really nice to see not only my family, but also my dear friends from high school. Believe it or not, you may eventually miss the high school classmates who get on your nerves now. I’ll admit that I didn’t do much homework during the break though. In my high school, some teachers…
Break Plans
Welp, I’m on my last few classes before Thanksgiving break. I’m really blessed in that I’ll be going all the way home for the holiday. I’ve become really well-acquainted with airports in the past three semesters. Many of my friends are staying though. There are only a few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so staying certainly isn’t the end of…