The two weeks in between London and Barcelona have been decidedly down to business. For starters, given that there are only two classroom weeks in March, this means that I have a test in every class. In the case of my medical biotechnology class, I have a test accompanied by two papers, a reflection, a presentation, and an interview with…
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A Very Nerdy Holiday
I got back to Copenhagen late Friday night. Right before we left London, our entire class sat down to high tea. I had never been to high tea before, and I was more than a little confused about what exactly it entailed. My American ways consider it a deluxe tea experience if I heat the water in a kettle rather…
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”…
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…
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…
On being kind (to yourself)
Hello again everyone! I’ve been trying to keep the blog upbeat with all the fun things happening in my life, but to be honest, this is probably the most challenging semester I’ve had yet at Wellesley. It’s wearing me down a little, and there’s definitely been some self-doubt involved. But before we have a little heart to heart, I thought…
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…
A new semester of sciencing
It’s Friday afternoon, and you know what that means… this girl right here has officially wrapped up her first week of classes! This semester, I’m taking some pretty intimidating science courses (Organic Chemistry and Cell Bio, I’m looking at you). But my lab advisor gave me some good advice that I’m trying to stick to: “Don’t worry about what everybody…
Standout moments from a (not so) typical week
I don’t have any grand international adventures for you this week. Well into the semester, everything feels familiar, like it couldn’t be any other way. I figured I would just describe a typical week in the life of a Wellesley student for you, but then I realized that my “typical” week actually involved synthesizing my own nylon, watching a silent…
Being a Bio Major isn’t All Tests and No Fun.
This past week has been pretty hectic. Which is why I am writing so late, although it has been of my own doing that I've been so busy. As you might know from my profile on the main bloggers' page, I'm double majoring in biology and psychology. Therefore, the fact that I had two tests in the past week in…