The long-awaited COVID-19 relief bill passed on March 10 after weeks of debate in the House and Senate. Given the economic, social and emotional strife of the pandemic, the bill offers a glimpse of hope....
The Class of 2025 received their Regular Decision acceptances on Saturday, March 20. They join Early Decision I and II enrollees to join a total of around 1267 admitted students. Sixteen percent of the...
Houghton Chapel did not host Flower Sunday or any of its other traditions this year, but students gather there weekdays for Russian, mathematics and chemistry, among other classes. The chapel is one of...
A portrait series
Content Warning: This portrait series mentions trauma surrounding saying goodbye to friends, the inability to return home and the legacy of COVID-19
The following testimonies were gathered...
On March 12, 2020, Wellesley College students received an email informing them that due to the outbreak of COVID-19, they would be forced to evacuate campus. In the few days that followed, everybody’s...
On March 10, two days before the one year anniversary of the day students were forced to evacuate campus due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the United States, College President Paula Johnson...
While underclassmen were only invited to come to campus in the fall, many first-years and sophomores applied to live on campus for the spring semester as well. The reasons behind this decision vary. ...
Many Wellesley traditions have been disrupted in this unusual school year, and study abroad programs have not been exempt. Out of the 13 Wellesley study abroad programs offered in the fourth term,...
In early March 2020, a Zoom icon appeared in the upper-right corner of the MyWellesley portal. Students began firing questions about what would happen at professors who knew no more than they did. Amherst,...
Last June, Biological Sciences professors Vanja Klepac-Ceraj and Julie Roden began wondering about how to design the first-ever remote version of their Microbiology with Laboratory (BISC 209) course for...
Tea-ing, the process organized to acquaint students with societies they might apply to join, looks different this semester. The tea season, which started the first week of March, is now entirely virtual...
[The hatred] is something that has been building up for a while.
CW: Hate crimes toward Asian Americans: recounts statements of verbal and physical abuse.
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Violence in Our...
