Erika Turner is a 2013 Wellesley graduate with a B.A. in Religion. Originally from Las Vegas, NV, Erika currently works as a freelance writer and editor in Boston with a background in creative writing and marketing. She plans to pursue a publishing career in New York and is currently in the process of applying to…
Time is a wonderful thing if you know how to use it well. This time last year, I had finished new graduate student orientation and I was prepared (or so I thought) to start what everyone warned me would be the hardest year of grad school—the first. Nervous but excited to begin and do SCIENCE…
As a varsity basketball player, I am often asked how my participation in athletics benefits and shapes my experience as a Wellesley student. In many ways, my experience is similar to that of non-athletes who, like athletes, have too many things to do and too few hours in the day to do them all. But…
Did you know the Center for Work and Service has an AmeriCorps VISTA representative this year working as part of the CWS Service Team? Let’s get to know Sierra Raimondi a little better. My name is Sierra and I am the Massachusetts’s Campus Compact (MACC) AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) for Wellesley College…
When the Center for Work and Service asked me to reflect and share some thoughts on my life as a D.M.A. candidate in Music Composition, I honestly did not know what to write because my work is constantly shifting and evolving, even in the three short years since my Wellesley graduation. I am a composer…
Hello again, Wellesley! The last time I published one of these blog posts was upon my return from a glorious Wintersession trip to New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity in January 2013. I still glow when asked to share about my experience from that trip (I’m sure my fellow trip participants can relate), and I…
Anisha Vachani ’12 is an associate that has been with Boston Consulting Group in New York since July 2012. She graduated from Wellesley with honors in economics and graciously offered to share some tips for consulting interviews. Please note that the following tips are only the personal advice of Anisha and her contacts, not BCG. PREPARATION While you…
As I entered my senior year at Wellesley in the fall of 1998, I started compiling English graduate program applications from universities around the world. I was returning from a junior year abroad at Oxford University, where I was steeped in intensive post-colonial theory tutorials, and planned to spend the rest of my life in…
“So, what are you planning on doing after you graduate?” I, like the rest of the Class of 2013, am quite familiar with this commonly used conversation starter. I am faced with this question at least twice a week, and I’m sure that because we are about to enter the purgatory that younger students call…
During my first year at Wellesley, I would tell anyone who would listen how I had discovered the world of banking and finance while having the time of my life in college, yet how disappointed I was to learn that this industry typically didn’t hire first-year summer interns. I talked to pastors, teachers, dog walkers,…