Happy Thursday! Today, I want to write about what takes up a lot of time in the day of the Wellesley student: walking around campus. Wellesley’s campus is on the smaller side of college campuses. The walk from my east side dorm to the west side Keohane Sports Center takes me about fifteen minutes. Students mostly walk around the campus…
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My academic life at Wellesley vs at the University of Edinburgh
Hey everyone! For this week I thought it would be fun to compare my academic life at Wellesley and at Edinburgh. In a lot of ways my academic life here is a lot different than what I’m used to at Wellesley, but there are surprisingly many similarities as well. For one, one of the biggest similarities is the way my…
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…
The One With Firsts and Flower Sunday
Welcome back everyone! It has been a LONG time since I last blogged in March, right before our time on campus was cut short and we were all sent home! It is crazy to think I’m back here on campus after nearly 7 months. A lot has changed, but yet at its core Wellesley remains very much the same. I…
Best Place on Campus
Today, I want to take a moment to talk about my favorite place on Wellesley campus. People who read my first blog post will know: I love walking the Lake Waban trail, and you will too. I’ve chosen this week to devote a blog post to Waban because the leaves have started to change, making this one of the best…
My Dream Week, Incoming
Fall break, and I’m sitting on my childhood bed with my violin at my feet. I would have updated sooner, but the academic push up to break has demanded nothing less than my full, unwavering, attention. A chemistry exam that was quite frankly brutal, a partial scientific paper on sgRNA transformation, on top of the “weekly maintenance” for classes and my…
Let’s Talk While I Wait For My Train
I’m currently sitting at the Yawkey train station, watching the entire city of Boston go by. For some reason, even though it’s 5:30 pm, the traffic into the city is heavier than the traffic going out. The last few stragglers are wandering into the Red Sox game. Fenway park is right across the street, and I had to dodge the…
Thoughts from a pond
Yesterday, dazed and confused after thinking about yeast in the back of my mind for five consecutive days, I took a nap on the bench by Paramecium pond. It was divine. The geese are nesting, for starters, which means fluffy babies in the next few weeks. (Between the geese and the new raven chicks, I am unusually invested in bird…
South Station, sentimentality, and sunsets
Greetings from an Amtrak train car currently waiting to depart South Station…spring break is finally here! I already feel like there’s a weight off my mind, although now that I don’t have quite so much work to think about I’m starting to realize how tired I really am. I really love my train rides home. Some people get sentimental on…