This is the last full week of classes at Wellesley! We have classes until next Wednesday, which is followed by reading period, and then final exams are upon us. If you do not know what reading period is, it is four days between the end of classes and the start of finals; there are no classes, and we allocate our…
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Class Trip 2.0
This past Saturday, my peace and justice class took a trip to a community organization in Boston called DSNI. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) is an organization that we had been studying in our class. The organization serves to advocate for the people of the Dudley Street neighborhood in Boston. The people in that community are mostly immigrants, people…
Naked Men on Campus and Why I (Don’t) Care
Yep, he’s really here. (a few additions have been made to the Sleepwalker Statue since Monday) So I’m sure most of you have seen or heard about the statue of the semi-nude man that’s taken residence on campus. On Tuesday, I was walking back to my dorm from the Science Center and did a double take when I saw a…
To a Year of Lasts: Wellesley Traditions
ME IN A NUTSHELL: I'm Christine, a senior at Wellesley College. I'm from sunny Chatsworth, CA (an hour north of LA). Here at Swells (Wellesley), I am a Political Science Major, Education Minor. I am also extremely involved in Residential Life; I am an HP (House President) and a former RA. I was born in Seoul, South Korea. I went abroad…
To the Prospies!
Today is the beginning of Fall Open Campus! I’m with people just like you – young women who are trying to find out if Wellesley is the right school for them. It’s weird experiencing this from the “current student” perspective. I was a prospie just a few months ago! “Prospie” is Wellesley-speak for a prospective student, by the way. I…