Happy Friday! I want to use this post to quickly reflect on one of my new favorite ways to destress as a student: making zines! If you do not know what zines are, they are like collages of text and images that have historical roots in activism and marginalized communities. Wellesley’s main library, Clapp Library, is currently under renovation and…
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Happy April!
Hi all! Can you believe it is April?! I certainly cannot! We are in the home stretch of classes and coursework to keep up with. I for one have been feeling some of the effects of burnout and thought it was only fitting that we talk about how to recognize and address feelings of burnout when in the busiest time…
Application Season, the Holiday that Connects Us All
So, yes, we are still talking about mermaids in psych. We’ve reached that point in the semester when the beginning-of-the-year chaos starts settling down and my weeks slip into a routine. I’ve gotten really involved in a few clubs and dropped a few others. I know the names of the other students in my classes (at least most of them?).…
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…
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…
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…
Making Midterms Week Better
I’m not going to lie: I had to ask for the coffee machine in Pom to be refilled yesterday. It was 7:00…pm. This was the week of three midterms, and it was a daunting lineup: Evolution, Chemistry, and Economics, and a full scientific paper to top it off. Not exactly a walk in the park, or in the spirit of…
