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…
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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,…
Countdown to Copenhagen
Jeg snakker Dansk! Not really. I don’t really speak Danish, but I am on a 14 day streak for learning it on this language-learning app I’ve discovered called Duolingo. I’ve learned how to say lots of useful things, like “the apple is purple” and “the duck and the spider eat breakfast.” Now it’s nice to learn something just for the…
9Sept2016
It’s good to be back. There’s no easing back in to the pace of things at Wellesley. You get here, start to unpack, plan out your schedule then BAM you’re on your way. The semester has already been so *full* in so many ways. I’ve rearranged my schedule from how I had planned it back in May, so that now…
Sunshine before semester’s end
Hello again everyone! Right now I’m sitting in the Munger courtyard, where the cherry trees are blooming and there’s a warm breeze making its way through the pines. Clouds are starting to roll in, suggesting rain, and so I guess nature will make this blog be done on time. We’ve had the most amazing weather the past two days. Yesterday,…
Boston and Beta Galactosidase
It’s been a particularly eventful Friday at the end of a long week. I just got back from Boston, volunteering with an El Sistema program as part the final project for my Ethnomusicology class. As I mentioned the other week, El Sistema is a Venezuelan-born music education movement that aims to use power of playing in an orchestra to shape…
Musical breakthroughs
One of my favorite moments is the getting a new piece on the violin. It’s a feeling of giddiness I can’t describe. I have such a long “bucket list” of pieces I want to play that each time I get the chance to play another one of my favorites, I can’t help but get excited. Sure, some of it comes…
Independence, illness, and lots of lab
One of the things you inevitably learn in college, outside of the classroom that is, is how to take care of yourself when you’re sick. It’s one of those things that comes with independence. You have to make the calls for yourself: do I go to class today or not? You’re staring down the rows of cold medicine at CVS and…
Unexpected winter beauty
We got snow! The first snow of the year on campus always has magical feel about it, even for someone like me, intimidated enough by last year’s 100 inches to be quite content with unseasonal warmth. Still, walking to breakfast this morning, dodging snowplows while listening to Tchaikovsky’s “Winter Reveries” Symphony, I couldn’t help but smile at the beauty that…