Somehow, it’s December already. On one hand, I’m excited, because it’s now socially acceptable to listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.” On the other hand, all I want for Christmas is to make it through two fifteen page papers and an inorganic chemistry final intact, so I can go home and lie on the floor…
Tag: finals
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…
Finishing finals and fun to come
Remember how I said I would be done with finals the next time I wrote to you? Well, this post may be coming to you a little later than usual, but I did keep my promise! I just handed in my last exam all of ten minutes ago. Dobby is a free elf! It’s definitely hard to muster up the…
Accomplishments, reassurance, and wrapping up the semester
Welcome, welcome to the first members of the Red Class of 2020! We are so very excited to have you join the Wellesley community! For some advice for the next eight months in between, I refer you back to my open letter to early applicants, in which I tell you all the things I wish I knew in the limbo-months…
Overcoming the overwhelming
Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m coming to you live from what is referred to by many as “the most stressful week in the semester,” the final week of classes. Personally, I have two 8-page papers to write in the next four days (not that I haven’t been working on them already, of course). The first is…
