I’m entering my junior year of high school, and so this summer I’ve been on a quest around Massachusetts walking the campuses of different schools. I had preexisting plans to explore Wellesley College, so when the opportunity to take photos for Swellesley arose, I gladly accepted. This photo gallery is simply a collection of photos from around campus, focused mainly on the wildlife and architecture. Fair warning, it’s about 50 percent bricks and 50 percent foliage.
This is actually the last photo I took on my spin around Wellesley College; I shot through the car window as we exited the campus. But given that this is an entrance sign, it felt fitting to put at the beginning of this little photo gallery.
With students absent from campus, what were noticeably present were the animals. As I walked past Lake Waban, a flock of geese squawked for food. Smaller birds, as well as bunnies, gave the campus a fairytale-like atmosphere. The occasional chipmunk or squirrel scurried across the path, always gone before I could snap a picture.
I quite liked the look of this building and took more than 40 photos of it. Here are four. Look closely in the arched entryway of the fourth photo, and you’ll see the first sign of human life I saw on campus, taken about 20 minutes into my walk. The college really did feel deserted.
And some orange lilies surrounding that same building. I got attacked by bugs as I tried to take photos of these flowers.
Here’s the Galen Stone Tower, named after — you guessed it — Galen Stone. He was a Boston-based financier and philanthropist in the early 1900s.
Not much notable about these last few photos, just thought the views were nice.
Hey, look, there are people.
I realized towards the end of my walk that none of my photos had any of the Wellesley blue color. Even the sky was a cloudy grey. So I will conclude this photo gallery with a royal blue sign whose meaning I do not understand. Exciting, isn’t it.
We thank Truly’s ice cream & frozen yogurt shop in Wellesley for sponsoring our summer interns. If you’d like to contribute as well, please make a tax-deductible donation & denote “intern.”
