Looking back on my Wellesley education, I admit to many more memories forged during snowy walks around the lake and long lunches in Munger dining hall than I do to any specific class. But, I know that everything about my four years at Wellesley gave me the confidence to believe that anything is possible and…
Zoe Sobel is a senior psychology major. She is a member of the varsity track and field team and a head athlete mentor. In addition to her internship with WBUR, she is a DJ for WZLY. As a student-athlete, I considered it next to impossible to have an internship during the school year. My sport,…
Samaa Ahmed ’13 currently lives and works in Washington, DC. At Wellesley, she majored in Psychology and minored in Sociology. She was an Albright Fellow, and was actively involved in various cultural organizations (including Slater, WCD, WASA, WASAC, and WAWA) and was a DJ at WZLY. In June 2013, I started out my new life…
I have to admit: Half the fun of writing this post is dusting off my old Wellesley essay writing song! I had a sneaky suspicion that I’d get to hear it again at some point, and I’m so honored and excited to have the opportunity. Even before I left campus last May, I knew that Wellesley would…
If someone had asked me five or six years ago whether I would work at an international development grant-making organization in the future, I might have laughed in their face. During my time at Wellesley, I discovered that I loved the smell of books, poring over old documents, and researching Soviet-era dissident movements late into…
Going to graduate school was always “in the plan,” but after graduating from Wellesley in 2010, instead of moving on to another institution of higher learning, I went back to a place that makes many people cringe when thinking of their academic history: I went back to middle school. I spent two years teaching Social…
If you’re like me and you’re an undergraduate student in the beginning stages of a job search and still trying to figure out what you want to do with your Wellesley liberal arts education, then adding Twitter to your job search repertoire might be useful in ways that you probably hadn’t thought about. When talking…
As a junior, Emma Smith ’14 studied abroad in Egypt with the support of a Boren Scholarship. The Boren provides American undergraduate students with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experiences in areas of the world critical to the future security of the United States in return for their commitment to…
The greatest opportunity of today’s job economy is that there is no need to wait your turn to engage your passion. The Internet has opened up the playing field for demonstrating your savvy and brilliance. When I studied at Wellesley College, Google was just emerging as an Internet leader and Facebook was merely a new…
When I tell my friends that interviewing is my favorite aspect of the job search, I am met with blank stares. Hopefully these tips that I share today will also help you enjoy the process. These pointers are by no means revolutionary, but they are the ones that I used to score a first job…