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…
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Class Trip 2.0
This past Saturday, my peace and justice class took a trip to a community organization in Boston called DSNI. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is an organization that we had been studying in our class. The organization serves to advocate for the people of the Dudley Street neighborhood in Boston. The people in that community are mostly immigrants, people…
Live from LONDON!!!
This blog is coming to you from a London hotel room, where I lie on my bed in a semi-ridiculous state of soreness after my first bike ride in five years. It happened to be a three hour bike tour around the entirety of London- quite the introduction back! It was full of ups and downs. Metaphorically speaking, I didn’t…
A (Pharmaceutical) Tour of Denmark
Well, I didn’t update you all last week, but in my defense I was in Western Denmark. This is a clever term for Americans who know nothing of Denmark’s geography; the Danes would never call it “Western Denmark”. No, I visited Aarhus and Odense, Denmark’s second and third biggest cities respectively. Essentially, we were on a weeklong field trip, “we”…
Live from the Royal Danish Academy of Music!
There’s a Mozart concerto is floating above my head. Quite literally, I’m sitting in the library of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where I’m taking two classes this semester. Some violinist is playing Mozart 5 and it’s sparkling and everything, weaving its ways through the walls above. The librarian is speaking in rapid Danish. I cannot make out a…
The Final Finals, and what’s next
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…
Hellos, and semester’s close
First off, a warm Wellesley Welcome to all our new sibs of the class of 2021 (!!!!!) who just found out their Early Decision results! We’re so excited to meet you, and we’re looking forward to all the energy and passion the new Green class will be bringing to campus. Take some time to celebrate this achievement and enjoy the…
The Calm Before the (Finals) Storm
Hello again dear readers! I hope you have all enjoyed a lovely Thanksgiving holiday and are easing yourselves gently back into work this Monday. For Thanksgiving, I took my beloved Northeast Regional train back home. There was a particularly beautiful sunset along the New England coast that afternoon, made even more poignant by the fact that I was listening to…
Statistics, Supermoon
Well, this blog tonight is coming to you from a brain that has been doing statistics nearly the entire day. That means a tired brain, a brain that feels like mush, a brain that feels more like a t-distribution than a normal one. Statistics jokes. I have an Econ Stats midterm tomorrow, in case you couldn’t tell. I went in…
How this semester has changed my thinking
How this semester has changed my thinking Every time I sit down with a cup of tea, I can’t help but think about the conceptual metaphor AFFECTION IS WARMTH and, suddenly the gently steaming hot liquid feels like a hug and exactly what I need at that moment. When you are eating a piece of bread, you are eating wheat,…