Characters from The London Players’ "Hamlet" Ranked by Queer Energy
by Addie Pates '19
Did you miss The Actors from the London Stage’s production of Hamlet last month? Not to worry; I’ve got the recap you need.
Read MoreLearn How to Be Like a Wellesley Student!
(Or, How to Let Yourself Die at the Hands of an Institution That Only Cares for Your Money)
by Alicia Margarita Olivo '20
Read More42 Things You Might Do at Wellesley
By Olivia Funderburg '18
Smuggle Domino’s into Clapp
See all the lamps across campus turn on
Go a whole semester without eating in Tower
Take a night ride on the Peter
Play hide-and-seek in the Science Center
The Limbo Rock: Bending the Definition of Success
By Sarah Wong '20
I started my first year at Wellesley as an eager Wendy (yeah, I was totally a Wendy), unable to conceptualize the immense volume of academic knowledge I expected to learn. Over the past thirty-six months, I have learned more than I could have ever imagined, although it hasn’t been what I initially set out to discover.
Read MoreAchieving Inclusivity
By Anjali Benjamin-Webb '18
I recently gave a speech at Wellesley’s Town Hall on “Inclusive Excellence.” My demands seemed to resonate with many, but were likely only heard by those of us who need institutional change the most.
Read MoreOur Bodies Are Political
By Anonymous
Content warning: ableism, fatphobia
I’m twenty-one years old, a senior in grade level only, and I need to get a cane.
Read MoreThe Day After the Protest
By Anonymous
Content warning: discussion of transphobic rhetoric, mention of restricted eating
Yesterday, a Freedom Project speaker’s presence was an attack on trans students. Last year, it was an attack on assault survivors. What if something changed?
Read MoreMore Than Just Stress Culture
By Deb Rowcroft '19
If grades didn’t matter, why would we need a grading policy? Wellesley’s grading policy—or as it’s popularly known, the grade deflation policy—was supposed to attract students to STEM majors and make it so those who “really earned” an A got the recognition they deserved. I mean, really, how will we know how amazing and hardworking a student is if they’re stuck among others with the same grades?
Read MoreExposure "Therapy": Being Low-Income at Wellesley
By Anonymous
Content warning: mention of anxiety
The American ideology of self-sufficiency and inherent, unbounded individual potential, reinforced in many ways by Wellesley, has deeply poisoned how I perceive myself. Being poor at Wellesley has always felt like a personal failure. Why can’t I just work more hours at my jobs? Why can’t I get a job during the school year that pays better? The reality is my jobs can’t give me more hours, I already have two of the best paying jobs on campus, and I need time to devote to academics as well as taking care of my health. How can I pull myself up by the bootstraps if I can’t afford boots?
Read MoreWellesley's Remix Through Student Voice
By Amanda Wahlstedt '20
If you weren’t aware, college freshmen have been known to party and test the limits of their newfound freedom. “Wellesley,” you may be asking, “where are all the parties?”
For the last two years, the answer has been, “off-campus at MIT, Babson, Olin, or Harvard.” Small dorm kick-backs happen, but there is no school-wide event for Wellesley siblings to celebrate the milestone of a new college semester together…or at least there hasn’t been one since the Class of 2020 got here.
Read More50 Things
By Allyson Larcom '17
Everyone talks about the infamous “50 things” list at Wellesley. In four years here, many of us have checked off a lot of those quintessential Wellesley adventures. A few of us have really done all fifty. All of us, however, have had many, many adventures that don't appear on that famous list.
Read MoreGrowing with Wellesley
By Kanika Vaish '17
It’s two weeks into my first year at Wellesley, and I and myself sobbing in the middle of the night in the quad courtyard. I won’t get into why I was crying—it would take me a long time to explain. But most Wellesley students know that there are few places on campus where you can cry and keep to yourself.
Read MoreThe Freedom Project: A Student Fellow's Perspective
By Margaret Flynn Sapia '19
Given the abundance of this year’s news articles, emails, and Facebook posts, I wouldn’t blame you for not wanting to read another Freedom Project story. I’m sure that the temptation to set down this magazine and do something else (like take a walk, eat some pie, or hide away with your Netflix account) is overtly compelling. Even as I sit down to write this, I’m having trouble knowing what to say. The last thing I want to do is polarize or inflame an already heated campus division, especially so close to the end of the year. However, the dialogue surrounding the Freedom Project has been missing a perspective.
Read MoreThe Road Less Traveled: or, the Ugly Side of Study Abroad
By Anonymous
Content warning: implication of depression and anxiety
No matter how prepared I may have been, how many web pages I read or maps I studied, how much I knew I wanted to do this, study abroad is not all worry-free days and adventure. It’s not just weekend getaways and clever Instagram captions. It’s a lot harder than that.
Read MoreContent Warnings for Donald Trump
Content warning: description of Donald Trump; mention of sexual assault, mental illness, homophobia
The Counterpoint staff recently had a discussion about our Content Warnings Policy, specifically on whether or not we would provide CWs for articles that discuss Donald Trump. We decided as a staff that, as a magazine by Wellesley students for Wellesley students, we should open up the discussion to our campus readers via an anonymous poll and comment section. However, we also as a staff agreed that if just one Wellesley student said that they wanted CW for Donald Trump, we would provide them because we are a magazine for all Wellesley students. Therefore, we have come to the conclusion that we will provide CW for Donald Trump. In addition, though, we have decided to start having more detailed CWs overall. We will now provide three categories of CW, described below. These descriptions will now be available in the inside front cover of every issue of Counterpoint for our reader’s convenience.
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