“For your perusing
At times confusing, hopefully amusing
Introducing me”
My name is Tatiana Ivy Moise, and I’m now officially a senior at Wellesley! The second half of that sentence still doesn’t even sound real to me yet. I have no idea how this moment has arrived so quickly, knowing that so much in my life has happened since I first became a Wellesley student. I feel like I was just a senior in high school, so to now be introducing myself as a senior in college feels absolutely unreal. (I’m sure it doesn’t help that I’m writing this post while sitting at home in my middle and high school bedroom in South Florida!) Alas– I’m here now, and I’m more than happy to share with you parts of myself and my journey to becoming a Wellesley College senior! To ring in this blog, here are some (a lot of) facts and photos that I feel introduce who I am pretty well:
I’m a young, Black woman. I am a proud Haitian-American and I’m a member of the LGBTQ+ community. I am a first-generation college student, a current Wellesley student, and a forever student of life. I am an only child to a single mother (hi Mom!), and I’m eternally grateful for her continued sacrifices to get me where I am today. I am a Questbridge Scholar who got matched to Wellesley on December 1st of 2016 and who had no idea the ways that day would change the entire course of my life. I am a Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies Double Major, who is really passionate about the intersections between the personal and the political. I’m a writer, I’m a speaker, and I’m a fierce advocate for equality, equity, liberation and justice.
I’m a super fan of Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and One Direction (yes, still). My friends would describe me as the Mom of the group, my bedroom would describe me as the Neat Freak Who Organizes Daily, and my Instagram account would describe me as The Girl With a Perfect Seven-Year Streak of Identically White-Bordered posts. I am someone who believes that absolutely everything in life happens for a reason, and I am someone who is both cognizant of and grateful for my consistent growth.
Honestly, my time at Wellesley so far has felt like I’ve lived three lives worth of lessons in just three years. Learning some of these lessons has been accompanied by great joy, and learning some of them has been accompanied by great pain. All that I’ve learned, however, has been necessary for my own personal growth, and I know that I am a better and more fully realized person now because of these experiences at Wellesley. I’m proud to introduce myself to you here and now, and by the time you’re reading this, I will have already learned new things and grown a bit more. Here’s to continuing to share some (again, a lot) of that with you in this blog. Thanks for joining me!
These photos of me were taken at Wellesley, in the Lighting Studio on campus!
The studio is stocked with lots of professional equipment available for trained students to use.
Warmly,
Tatiana ’21
P.S: This week’s post is dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement. Black lives have always mattered; they matter today; they will matter forever. Black lives matter on Wellesley’s campus, in our neighborhoods, across our country, and around the world. If you are interested in supporting BLM, here is an incredible collection of resources compiled by some Wellesley peers and friends of mine. I thank them for their amazing work, especially during this time.