It feels like I just took a final exam. Since some of you haven’t experienced walking out of a final exam at Wellesley, there’s this moment when you walk outside after, that you can’t believe the world can be so still when your brain is still going a million miles an hour. It’s a surreal moment. And there’s a sense…
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Catching up! And summer soul searching
My, oh, my a lot has happened since my last post! I’m going to get right into catching you all up with all my major soul searching that’s happened over the summer. But before I dive in, I just want to extend a welcome to anyone newly following my blog this year. I’m Eleanor; it’s nice to have you here,…
Concerts and Cell Bio
Another Friday almost done! If it seems like my blog posts are getting later than later, it’s because for the past month or so, as part of my final project for my ethnomusicology I’ve been going into Boston to volunteer and observe an El Sistema music education program at a local charter school. Because this is a public platform, and…
Science and the Symphony
There is a robin singing very intently outside my dorm room. Unusually loud and unusually long, the song slips up and down a major third. The carillon bells are also playing in the background, and I can’t help but think the bird is singing along its own accompaniment. It’s a nice, peaceful ending to an otherwise jam-packed week. Since my…
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…
Turning twenty (and trampolines)
Happy Friday everyone! I am (number-wise) officially a year older since we last spoke. Twenty is a big birthday, in my opinion. It’s a very round number and marks entering an age of maturity. So naturally, I celebrated in a very adult manner: by gathering up some of my closest Wellesley friends and going to a trampoline park. That’s right,…
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…
A snowy return
Hello everyone! As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in Metropark train station, checking the status of my Boston-bound warrior train bravely (but three hours slowly) making its way up the East coast mid blizzard. Oddly enough, this storm isn’t hitting Boston too hard…but New Jersey is certainly taking a hit. We almost got stuck in a snowbank twice trying 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…
Jam sessions, symphonies and getting things together
Good morning to all of you! At least its still morning as I write here, one of those rare mornings where it seems New England has rediscovered impossibly blue skies. Walking to my blog-writing seat in admissions from Philosophy class, I witnessed a Wellesley student rescuing a fuzzy little brown and black caterpillar from an oncoming admissions tour on the…