Happy last blog post of 2024! I seriously cannot believe I am more than halfway done with college. I know Wellesley early decision 1 results came out recently, so if you are an admitted student reading this, massive congratulations to you, and I hope these blog posts can give some better insight into student life here!
Here at Wellesley, classes have ended, and we are fully in reading period now; reading period are the days we get to study and prepare for finals, which start next week. I have a cumulative economics final and a religion and history paper to write (wish me luck!). My econ final is self-scheduled—meaning I can go to our testing center and take this final during any of the given time blocks next Monday to Thursday. There are typically three given time blocks per day to take a final. My religion paper is due Monday, I am planning to take my econ final on Tuesday, and my history paper is due Thursday. Many finals are self-scheduled here at Wellesley, which I have heard is pretty unique to us because of the Honor Code we follow and something I am very grateful for.
I want to use this blog post to quickly look ahead: for winter break, I am heading back home to Illinois as usual. I am sooo looking forward to lazing around at home with my cat and family, actually reading all the books that I have been meaning to start, and seeing my best friends.
Academics-wise next semester, I am planning to take a 300-level econ elective class, a 200-level econ class required for my major, another religion class, and a financial accounting class. The financial accounting class is actually taught on Wellesley’s campus through Babson College, a college near us that focuses on business and that we have a partnership with. I am also trying to get off the waitlist for a statistics class, so I will update in the future on how that goes! I am genuinely looking forward to the classes I am taking next semester. Now that I am a junior and further along in my academic journey, it is nice that I have a bit more choice over the courses I take. For example, I am trying to take econ classes that focus more on finance or macroeconomics since those are my personal interests and fields that I am interested in pursuing post-Wellesley.
I am also continuing my jobs as a blogger, research assistant, and academic success coach next semester, so I am excited about that too. Next semester is going to be busy (which semester isn’t though?), but in a good way.
Thank you so much for reading this fall! I hope everyone has an awesome winter break (if you’re an admitted student, maybe you can spend it binge reading through my blog posts 🤭), and I will see you in the spring!
It has lightly snowed on campus in the last week…
Crazy Twilight-esque fog near Lake Waban and Lake House residence hall