Goldilocks’ Internet on Valentine’s Eve
By Anonymous
Thoughts on Valentine’s Eve, sparked by The New York Times “Modern Love” section.
Read More33 Dover Road
By Stella Ho ‘22
I was walking back to the French House with my friend Gaya last week when a sentence slipped out of my mouth: “Look, we’re almost home.”
I paused for a second. Before that moment, in my last month of classes, in my senior year at Wellesley, I had never called a dorm here “home” before.
Read Moreplaylist: wellesley moods april 2022
By Counterpoint Staff
A playlist of 20 songs reflecting Wellesley’s current mental state. Featuring “Ain’t It Fun,” “I Drink Wine,” and “Presumably Dead Arm”.
Read MoreOak Tree on Lake Waban: An Analysis of Dickinson Through Natural Observations
By Maggie Erwin ‘23
I have been measuring the surrounding ecosystem of a small oak tree near the lake: the mushrooms that pop up (evidence of the rich underground network of mycelium and roots communicating with one another), the bees that frequent the flowers, the grasses, and the changing leaves.
Read MoreBathroom Alignment Chart
By Counterpoint Staff
Which Wellesley bathrooms are lawful good, true neutral, chaotic evil, etc.? Our classifications.
Read MoreWellesley College is Not Made for the Marginalized
by Harper Elrod ‘25
CW: Alcohol mention, anti-Latine sentiment discussed, anti-Black racism discussed, classism discussed, depiction of domestic violence, reclamation of the D slur
When I ask the organizer of Dyke Ball if there will be a space for those who struggle with addiction and have trauma around alcohol, I am told that while I won’t be forced to be in a space where alcohol is served, there will be drunk people attending, wherever I choose to be.
Read MoreThe Wellesley Experience
By Natalie Marshall ‘21
I’ve been sitting on my bed in my second-floor Sev room for hours, trying to make sense of my “Wellesley experience.” Or, more specifically, trying to put it down in a neat couple thousand words. My problem is that I want it to have a linear arc, a beginning, middle, and end.
Read More100 Things You Must Do at Wellesley (the chaotic version)
By Counterpoint Staff
Ascend to the top of the Galen Stone Tower.
Fall unconditionally in love with: a building.
Nachos
by Sanjana Ramchandran ‘22
One of the best things about living in Sev was that Lulu was ridiculously close by, so my friends and I decided to hop over to Café Hoop to wait out the firefighters. Would you rather stand in the freezing Massachusetts air waiting for your dorm to reopen, or escape to someplace warm and full of delicious food? Yeah, I thought so.
Read MoreThis Week in Social Anxiety Disorder
by Anonymous
CW: description of anxiety
Monday morning: I’m walking to the Career Education Center with a donut in my hand. I’m eating it in the Pendleton parking lot when I think: there's a professor in Founders who I haven’t spoken to in a while. She gave me an extension on a paper once—a couple of papers, actually. But I haven't visited her since then. I guess I would have felt awkward having us both know the favor she did for me. I wouldn’t know how to broach the topic, or if I should even broach it.
Read MoreThe Pros of Dorm Living
by Ely Willard ‘20
As I make my way through my senior year, I keep getting prematurely nostalgic for this place, even though I’m still here. And one of the things I know I’ll miss, strange as it may sound, is living in a dorm.
Read MoreSoup Rat
by Mable Peach ‘23
In the age of Disney+, one must reflect on the Pixar legacy left by films like A Bug’s Life, The Incredibles, and Toy Story. Often unappreciated and overlooked, though, is the cinematic classic Soup Rat, a charming tale of one gifted rat and his experiences in the third-floor kitchen of Wellesley College’s Tower Court East dorm.
Read MoreMountain Air
By Sage Wentzell-Brehme ‘21
For those who don’t know, Wellesley has an outdoor recreation department that sponsors hiking and rock climbing trips around the region. In a fit of early semester exuberance, I signed up for a hiking trip at the end of October.
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