My name’s Samantha Meagher. I’m from New Jersey. I’m a rising senior with a double major in Sociology and HISP. I wrote this poem because Wesleyan is a place that has allowed me to form deep connections and learn so much more about myself. It feels awful to be torn away from it so abruptly…
Katie Murray I’m from the class of 2019, my majors were Government and Hispanic Literature and Culture and I received an English Teaching Assistantship to the Canary Islands. It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but my experience was better than I had ever imagined. The best part for me was getting to know a…
Written by Kennedy Odede ’12 When Covid-19 hits Africa, will we be ready? This was a distant thought just one month ago. Now, as cases climb, we are braced for impact. As the crisis deepens in the world’s largest economies, taking up most of the media bandwidth, Africa hardly makes the headlines. In international news…
My name is Sophie, I’m a sophomore at Wesleyan, a freshly declared Italian Studies major, and a student employee for the Fries Center for Global Studies and the Office of Study Abroad. Over the spring semester I, along with my peers and coworkers, have been preparing for next fall abroad. My peers and I have…
by Konstance Krueger, OSA Graduate Assistant It’s been a challenging last few weeks for students who planned, prepared, and saved to study abroad this spring. In difficult times like these, it’s important that we treat ourselves kindly, find community, and recognize that we are not alone. The Office of Study Abroad, WesWell, and the Office of…
Written by Kennedy Odede ’12 The Covid-19 crisis will move our problems from a health pandemic to class warfare. For most of my life, I lived in Kibra — before a series of chance encounters brought me to attain my university education in the United States. My life in Kibra was shared, intimate, inextricable. At…
