The experience of being an editor on The News — and a student at Wellesley in general — has been, to put it mildly, sometimes stressful. At the same time, it is certainly one of the best...
Each year, the College awards four Pamela Daniels ’59 fellowships, which consist of $3,500 for the recipient to pursue a project they would like to accomplish before graduating.
Daniels was class...
When Mallika Govindan ’14 went to India for her cousin’s wedding, she received an invitation from the director of Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) to visit the society’s school in Anupshahr....
Students in Wellesley’s sociology course “Tiananmen Movement in China” (SOC 289) organized a panel on Oct. 29, in which two survivors of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing told their stories.The...
About a dozen Wellesley students took a break from their midterm study sessions last Thursday to attend a presentation by Wellesley’s foremost sinologists and a webcast Q&A with former President...
Ever considered teaching English in rural villages, traveling to Indonesia to learn music or rebuilding infrastructure in Appalachia? Known for graduating many high-achieving alumnae, Wellesley also offers...
Zahra Malik
Hometown: Edison, N.J.
What she misses about home: I miss the time I spent with my family, especially my grandparents and my two brothers. We are triplets and they are freshmen at Brown...
Africana studies and sociology among several departments to offer new classes
For students who find choosing courses that fulfill graduation requirements another tedious chore, a new cluster of courses...
I don’t spend a lot of time taking pictures of my classrooms or the prison-like University Library in Cambridge. Whenever I pass by Trinity College, St. John’s College or King’s College, arguably...
The Cambridge trimester schedule is quite different from Wellesley’s semester system. Essentially, the first Cambridge trimester, known as the Michaelmas term, is equivalent to Wellesley’s fall semester,...
It was 7:00 p.m. and my first meeting at Cambridge University’s Tolkien Society. Conversations in the room revolved around The Hobbit and its recent film adaptation. At last, I had found my own little...
Academic expectations at Cambridge are not entirely distinct from those at Wellesley, but there are some significant contrasts. At Wellesley, I wrote approximately one essay of 1,500 words a month per...
The mass stabbing attack at the Kunming Railway Station in China’s Yunnan Province on March 1 once again raised the barely-subsided issue of Uighur-Han ethnic conflicts. The attack left 29 civilians...
It’s your first weekend trip to London. You are at the Tower of London. Do you spend 20 pounds to go into the Tower of London to see the crown jewels? Or would you take a cruise down the River Thames...
On Oct. 16, ABC aired comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s skit “Kid’s Table,” in which children are asked to debate contemporary political issues. During the skit, Kimmel asked a group of children...
On Oct. 28, a white SUV drove into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—the heart of the capital of China—and its passengers initiated what police later described as a terrorist suicide attack. After plowing...
