This is a part of Wesleying's 2025 Unofficial Orientation Series. You can check out our welcome post with links to other articles here. Disclaimer: While the tips introduced in this post can be applied universally, you should remember that your odds of getting into a class depend primarily not on your effort, but on the professor’s policies and the popularity of the class. Still, trying can’t hurt! During drop/add , students are able to add pretty much any class to their sche

This is the last part of this year's ThesisCrazy  Series. Interviews by Zoomy Alexandra Segal ’25  (she/her), major and thesis in anthropology, carrel #409 Title:  “On the Nose: What to Learn from Funk and Fragheads” On her topic: “My topic is about perfume, and how queer people specifically use perfume to play with gender, to play with sexuality, to play with a sense of self through the sensorial experience of our noses and smell and to become other people, relate to other p

This is a part of our ThesisCrazy  Series. You can sign up here  for a short 10 min interview! Interviews by Zoomy Cate Goodwin Pierce ’25  (she/they), Psychology & FGSS double major, African-American Studies minor, thesis in FGSS, carrel #453 Working Title:  “ Riveted: A Gendered and Anti-imperialist Analysis of America’s Obsession with Denim ” On her topic: “ I looked at denim throughout US history with an intimate methodology. So that meant de-centering Lees, Levis, Wrangl

This is a part of our ThesisCrazy Series. You can sign up here for a short 10 min interview! Interviews by Zoomy Sofia Rinaldi ‘25 (she/her), Astronomy and Physics Major, Thesis in Astronomy, no carrel  Working Title:  "This Gal is on Fire: Understanding the Kinematic and Morphological Evolution of Early Galaxies Using Simulations." “The capitalization is important. This Gal is on Fire, because gal for galaxy and then fire is the name of the simulations I use.” On her topi

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Ah, WesMaps. Everyone’s favorite course registration program that clearly hasn’t been redesigned in years. Wesleyan’s gone through one-and-a-half logo redesigns in the past decade, but WesMaps remains frozen in time. But how old is it exactly? I was expecting to have to do major archaeology (using the Wayback Machine, viewing the page’s source code, guessing the year based on web technologies used), but the answer ended up being a lot easier to find. At the top of every WesMa

The residents of 261 Pine lookin’ cute After a short hiatus due to being crazy busy, we’re back with the final ThesisCrazy installment, and it’s a special one too!! This article features three of the residents of 261 Pine Street; we have Phie Jacobs ’22 sharing their ~pertinent~ novella on a fictional disease pandemic, Kevin Le ’22 reveals the mind of a poet, and our very own head editor maury , Margaret Fitch ’22 talks about hybridizing the personal and the academic in he