Part 2 of my summer update! See Part 1 here. While the previous post looked more directly at my project, a great part of my Dale experience lies in my day to day life in New York…

Happy summer from New York City!! I hope you all are doing awesome and have been enjoying fast-flying golden months of the year. Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Award So at the end of last school year, I…

I spent this summer working with a post-doctorate researcher in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (EEB) who is conducting a study of febrile illness in pediatric patients in Laikipia…

If you’re the sort of person who likes to travel, or hasn’t travelled much but would like to, Princeton has you covered. Princeton students find about ten-and-a-half billion ways to see the country…

The largest climate march in history took place Sept. 21 in countries all over the world, with more than 400,000 protesters marching in New York City alone. I am so proud to say that I was among them…

I spent most of my summer taking photos. You probably could have guessed as much, given that I lived in India for nine weeks. What may come as a bit more of a surprise is how those photos helped me…

Life is starting to settle back into routine here at Princeton, and I am finally beginning to readjust after my recent semester abroad. As a senior (!), starting a new semester is simply a…

One of the best parts of being on campus this time of year is the changing foliage that signals the coming of autumn to New Jersey. Princeton is one of the more beautiful places I’ve ever lived in or…

History was made this summer in Washington, D.C. In early August, President Obama hosted 51 official delegations from the African continent for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Among…

Image Until last January, I had never heard the word “Ediacaran” in my life. Nor could I reliably point out…

Image Day 4 continued: My team was closest to camp, so we could see the water creeping toward our tents,…

So I have a few brothers and sisters, three of whom went to college before me. Image Every time one of my…

Those of you who are regular readers of my blog (shout out to my mom!) know that I'm a member of Quipfire!, Princeton's oldest improv comedy group. And believe it or not, my interest in comedy…

College awareness is an issue that has interested me since my senior year of high school. I still clearly remember all the difficulties and confusion I endured during the college application process…

Hello, readers!Imagine: a foreign language professor is trying to explain to you a complex grammatical point about how the endings of words change depending not only on those words’ parts of speech,…

In a previous post, I described my geological field work during June and July in Namibia. I helped a graduate student in the Department of Geosciences, Akshay Mehra, with his research, which focuses…

I went out to brunch with two of my freshman-year roommates a few days ago. It had been a long time since I had seen one of them—she had studied abroad during the fall, and I had studied abroad…

Hello, hello, hello! My first quarter of junior year has moved swiftly and surely, so there's much to catch up on. I'm officially an English major, have staked out my own…

Intramural sports at Princeton are characterized by a general feeling of fun, adventure and good spirit. Every eating club and residential college sponsors a team, and these teams are usually…

I recently ran my first half-marathon, hopefully the first of many more. I woke up at 5:30 a.m., went out into the 30-degree weather (real-feel 21? yep...) in my blue striped knee-…

Just before Thanksgiving, Princeton Disabilities Awareness, popularly known as PDA, hosted its first fall conference/carnival. This event involved two simultaneous programs: a conference…

Thursday afternoon. It was a beautiful day here at Princeton University. The leaves were changing color, the air was just breezy enough for a light jacket and there wasn’t a single cloud in sight.…

Joining Team U has been one of the best decisions I have made at Princeton. I remember how surprised I felt when I discovered that Princeton had an organization like Team U that both raised funds for…

Hello again - so sorry for the long hiatus! Here is a quick recap of what I have been up to since March: I was away competing in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI 2014), working on…

When I applied to college, I knew I loved physics, but I didn't know much about what being a physics major entailed. So that you are more informed, I've created a summary of the physics…