Happy spring semester! It’s a new year, new semester, and I’m feeling optimistic. Spring is my favorite time at Wellesley: the weather slowly gets warmer, it no longer gets dark at four pm, and there’s the promise of summer not so far away.
I had a hectic but enjoyable winter break. I headed back home and went on an overnight trip to an indoor water park with my best friends.
Me slumped on the bus after the waterpark. Sitting on a tube in a lazy river is tiring work!
Then, my family and I took a road trip to spend a few days in Canada with my cousins who live there. I rotted around at home for a week or two, and then I actually came back to Wellesley one week early to participate in Upskill.
Delicious Tibetan food in Toronto
You can see Toronto’s CN Tower!
Upskill is a recent program that is run by Wellesley’s Career Education Center. It takes place on campus during winter break the week before spring semester classes begin. In Upskill, students do a four-day crash course in a certain career track. I applied for and did the investment banking program. It was super interesting and worthwhile; we were taught the fundamentals of accounting and finance and visited some investment banks in Boston. I would highly recommend it! The other career tracks are coding and entrepreneurship, and they are planning to add more in coming years.
Dressed up to go visit investment banks for Upskill
Though it was a week before the official semester began, there were still some other students on campus; I saw other Upskill participants, winter sports teams, winter session students, etc. Being back on campus early felt a little eerie at first, with a fairly empty dorm building, but eventually I enjoyed it because it was nice to have extra time to acclimate back to Wellesley.
I have 300 photos of this exact same view in my camera roll…
As for my classes this semester, I’m currently taking a statistics, economics, and computer science class, as well as cross registering at MIT! Needless to say, I’m spending a lot of time looking at numbers on my laptop until my eyes burn. I will dedicate a later post to my MIT class, what cross registration and experiencing a different academic environment is like, and even just the logistics of getting to MIT. My classes are definitely tough this semester, but they are all in subjects that genuinely interest and challenge me. Thankfully, my schedule this semester ended up so that I do not have classes on Mondays and only a lab class on Thursdays!
I really look forward to blogging this semester and have included pictures from winter break and Wellesley in winter. Thank you for reading!