This is Tower East, Tower West, and Severance.
I really love this courtyard. It's like really beautiful in the spring when the flowers come
out and like the sun is shining. The view of the lake from here is just gorgeous. I love it.
I think of this place as a place of just like relaxation. So I try not to bring my work here.
So I usually hang out here with friends or by myself when I just need to think.
I like the Cloughlin Bakery. It's so cool that we actually have a bakery in a dorm.
Right now, it smells like muffins, I'd say, or cupcakes. I live in Cloughlin. This is the
lobby area. We call it the porch. Most people just come here to hang out or to study. People will
just show up hoping that others will come by and usually they do. My record of staying at the porch
has been, I'd say, 24 hours. But a lot of people I know have actually spent probably days here.
I love walking around the lake when I have free time or running around the lake and have the
wind hit you and then like have the feeling of the water. It's so relaxing when I need some time off.
Lake Wabon is one of my favorite parts of campus because there is a legend at Wellesley that if
you walk around the lake three times with your sweetheart, if he doesn't propose by the third
time you could push him in or dump him into the lake. My boyfriend at the time, he loosely
interpreted the legend and decided that hanging around the lake was enough by the third time he
proposed and he was very sweet about it and it was very romantic. When I was a student here,
Harry Potter was very popular. The students started doing funny things like drawing chalk of
platform nine and three quarters and one of the staircases in Green Hall. Every class I've seen,
they've always loved those books and they've always picked homage to characters like that around
campus. There's definitely an element of surprise in the stairway that very much relates to the
Harry Potter legend. The idea of going through a wall and coming out into a different place,
not quite knowing what to expect. It's sort of mysterious. You can't see at the bottom and you
never quite know if somebody's coming up the stairs and it has this very awkward tension.
Sound resonates really well in here. Hello! The greenhouses are beautiful. Every time I walk through
there, it's sort of an instant stress reliever. It's so fragrant. There's such a variety. If I
had to say that I was going into a different world, that would be it. We have 7,200 square feet
under glass, which is amazing. Even Harvard has mostly research houses. They don't have a collection
like this. This is the Dutchman's Pipeline. It's supposed to look like running flesh. You've got
lots of different kinds of agonias here. This is the penthees, the tropical pitcher plant. This traps
insects and eats them. We get students in here just hanging out, reading. We've got art students
in here all the time. We get math students. There's all kinds of neat patterns. You can find in nature.
International students who recognize things that, you know, grow in their grandmother's balcony.
It gets used wide range of ways, not just for for science. El Table is this student-run cafe.
What I love about El Table, they use lettuces grown in greenhouses. El Table is a student-run
cooperative. We do everything, all of our finances, food preparation, purchasing. We aim to be a
sustainable co-op, buying local goods. We have some compost barrels outside. This is a really
great place to find more sustainable, smaller brands. Carolina's sweet. It's like very old
Wallsley. It's always really fun to hear the bells on campus, especially when you're trying to
guess what tune it is because I think the bells are a little out of tune. We're at the top of
Gallenstone Tower. Above us are where the bells are. They're connected to the Carolina keyboard
by these transmission wires. When you press down one of the notes, the wire pulls, the clapper
inside the bell that makes the sound. When you play music, no one else knows. It's you,
but everyone enjoys it, I hope. So it's a very public instrument, but it's also very anonymous.
I think the S'mores and Fire Pit is a really fun place. People just hang out and talk and eat. We
could definitely play some traditional campfire songs during S'mores night to add to the ambience
of the evening. I would say that these kinds of get-togethers happen a few times each fall
and a few times each spring when the weather's still nice out. I've been to a couple this year.
There might be more than I didn't attend, but I mean if I'm around and I see S'mores,
yeah, I'm not a fool. So I think everyone just really enjoys having something sweet. It's just
a good reason to get people out of the library, out of the room studying, and meet up with some
friends and commiserate. You can get pretty upscale with the chocolate. There's like category over
there. We have some dark stuff. Yeah. I usually try to hover a little bit. I noticed Rachel was
just sticking it right in there and lighting it on fire. I aim for perfection. I aim for the
golden brown. It's not the perfect marshmallow, then. Then you throw it in the trash.
