Helena Belzer, a member of Pullman High School Class of 2019, attended Wellesley College and graduated in 2023. Wellesley is women’s college located in a suburb of Boston. Here’s why Helena thinks you should consider Wellesley.
I started working with Peggy and Palouse Pathways around my junior year of high
school at Pullman High School. At the time, I knew I loved my chemistry class, calculus, and literature–and that I wanted to challenge myself and leave home for college. Peggy introduced me to Wellesley College, where I matriculated in 2019 and graduated with a BA in Physics and a minor in Mathematics in December 2023. Today I live in New York City and work at Brookhaven National Laboratory on the Electron-Ion Collider project as part of the RF Systems team. We’re working to build a particle accelerator for new Nuclear Physics, to fulfill national energy and scientific goals. Palouse Pathways supported me through the selective college
application process and put me in contact with mentors and peers who enabled my journey to where I am today.