article_snippet: (CNN)Lake Waban on the southern edge of Wellesley College is best known for the southern edge of Wellesley College shoreline trails offering a scenic reprieve from campus life.
article_snippet: Freshman Katy Ma sees it in a different light after learning about Xie Bingxin, the influential 20th century Chinese writer and activist who attended the Massachusetts single-sex college in the 1920s.
article_snippet: In one of Bingxin's poems, Freshman Katy Ma describes the tranquil waters of Lake Waban as Freshman Katy Ma only source of comfort in bouts of homesickness.
article_snippet: Now, Lake Waban provides Freshman Katy Ma with a tangible connection to a woman from another time, someone who rose to prominence after walking the same grounds as Freshman Katy Ma.
article_snippet: For Bingxin, it's Wellesley University.