Shower Thoughts
TW: Kinda Gross
Dear hair clump owner,
I received your gift. Despite removing my glasses upon entering, I was still able to make out your gracious offering to the shower gods.
Read MoreThe Dream Deferred
By Nafisa Rashid
The great Langston Hughes once talked of dreams deferred
The type of dreams that are not preferred
Read MoreGoldilocks’ Internet on Valentine’s Eve
By Anonymous
Thoughts on Valentine’s Eve, sparked by The New York Times “Modern Love” section.
Read MoreNew Year's Resolutions
By Counterpoint Staff
Our hopes, dreams and resolutions for the new year (including learning to fight a goose). Will they come true in 2023?
Read MoreDipping My Toes In
By Camryn Ward ‘25
I’ve always imagined time as the sea. Calming yet restless, gentle yet powerful, something that you can never get ahold of. Always pushing forward, always moving, but most of all, inescapable. I felt the weight of time press on to me this past summer, frequently finding myself counting down the days until I could finally return to school and get back to planning my future. Those days time would blur and pass by me, but never fast enough. By the time summer was over, I came across this poem:
“The Orange”
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 MoreExceptions
By Dani Pergola ‘21
When I got to Wellesley, I planned to approach it just like high school. Do the right thing, do all my work, and get the good grades I deserved. It only took a month for me to realize I was totally fucked.
Read MoreThe Hidden Projection of Memory in Public Space
By Abby Schleichkorn ‘21
When you walk around campus, do you see the smiles shared, the friendships made, the tears shed, the place where the Peter used to pick us up, the exact place where you found out you got an A on THAT paper? I know I do. That is the unspoken language of place––I see my memories, and you see yours.
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.