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Tag: Wellesley College

Attending Wellesley, an All-Women’s College

January 9, 2019 Leave a comment
large brick building with blue sky in background

Seeing the Stars Imagine you go outside after you’ve left your well-lit house. You look up and all you see is a black sky. However, your eyes start to adjust to the lack of surrounding light and your vision starts to change. Slowly, you observe these specks of light that become brighter as you stay outside. And finally, after a

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  • Emily in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

The Lingering “What If”

October 29, 2018 Leave a comment
Emily with her older sister and mom, who both graduated from Wellesley

When I was deciding where to go to college, I had the choice between two schools. One place was my mom and sister’s alma mater; it was a place I had visited multiple times before and it was nearby Boston, a city I had always wanted to live in. The other place was a wildcard: no one in my family

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  • Emily in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

First Impressions

October 2, 2018 Leave a comment
Emily kayaking

Hello from the very far away town of Wellesley, Massachusetts! It’s my 5th week here at Wellesley, and I can’t believe it’s already Fall! The campus is surrounded by trees, and I’m really excited to see the leaves change color. On first impressions, Wellesley isn’t that different from Amherst. Class sizes are around 600 students. Majority of students live in

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  • Emily in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

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Reflections on a Semester Away: A Look into the Varied Experiences of Visiting Students

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Beginning My Reflections  Boy, what a semester it has been. As is always the case with me, time felt so slow– too slow– in the beginning, but looking back at it from the end, it went by extremely quickly. My semester in Japan has been full of surprises (both good and occasionally not-so-good) and so with this post, I will

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Interview with a Student from Sorbonne Nouvelle

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! For this blog, I spoke to my friend Narymane, a student at the French university Sorbonne Nouvelle, about her experiences and views on race and colonial relations in France. I was excited to talk to Narymane because most of what I learned in France about the political and social environment was from my professors, who were all GenXers.

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Tips and Tricks and Learning New Things in Madrid

March 14, 2023 wcarlo Leave a comment

¡Hola a todes! ¡Bienvenido a vuelta a mi blog de sustanabilidad (translation: welcome back to my sustainability blog). I’ve now been in Spain for approximately 24 hours, and, my goodness, has it been a wild ride! I can’t remember the last time when I felt more overwhelmed—and I once moved across the country to live in a new city by

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The Eiffel Tower from afar lit up at night

First Impressions and Preconceived Notions of France

February 15, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! This blog post will talk about some of my first impressions of Paris, the largest and most surprising differences I noticed between Paris and the United States, and some of my personal experiences and feelings as I spent time abroad.    As I settled into my classes at Hamilton in France and Sorbonne Nouvelle, I was stricken by

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