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…
Tag: science
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…
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…
Collective frazzled spirit
There’s a collective frazzled spirit on campus this week. The days leading up to a break are always a stressful time, and no matter how much anyone tries to avoid it, midterms and papers always seem to line up simultaneously. Personally, my weekend will be divided between a full lab report on the random vs. directed mutation hypothesis in the…
Since we last spoke
Happy November, everyone! Last week I wrote an open letter to all of you applying early decision, which I hope proved helpful and/or reassuring to a few of you. But that means you’re not just two weeks behind on weevil updates, and all the cool stuff I’m doing in lab and the fact that I have a major advisor now…
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…
Five little Wellesley things that made my week
Five little Wellesley things that made my week 1) Burritos with a scale insect expert. Our weevil lab took a little lunch outing to Boloco with a professor from U Mass Amherst, who was coming to Wellesley to give one of the Biology department’s endowed lectures. He focuses on scale insects; how asexual reproduction correlates to the number of host…
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…