Dear Princeton Class of 2021,  Congratulations and WELCOME to Princeton!  Get excited. Your next four years at this University will be characterized by opportunity, diversity and…

Princeton University boasts nearly 300 student organizations, meaning that there is something for everyone. If poetry was your thing in high school, there’s a poetry and spoken word club…

One of my favorite moments every year in high school was receiving my yearbook and flipping through the pages, remembering all of the fun moments from the year. There was the first Friday celebration…

Over spring break, I traveled to Berlin, Germany, to attend my first conference, ever: The Princeton-Fung Global Forum! Image…

Last spring, midway through the second lecture of an introductory molecular biology course, I found myself fighting in vain to stifle a smile.No, I had not just been struck by the sudden…

This semester, I’m enrolled in "Science and Technology Council (STC) 209: Transformations in Engineering and the Arts," and it might be my favorite class I’ve taken at Princeton.The…

To answer the most frequently asked question I get from prospective students: It's super cool! Image Basically,…

Cochabamba is a city in Bolivia known for its water. Ever since the 2001 Water War, the struggle for fair access to water enveloped the city in a brutal back and forth between national police and…

I like to refer to Princeton as “an academic playground.” Within the confines of the “Orange Bubble,” my responsibilities and obligations are largely limited to my academics and extracurricular…

Often times on my Orange Key tours, visitors question me about what Princeton students do for fun. “You don’t study all day, do you?” they ask. To this I laugh and respond that while we do study, we…

Every year in April the Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton undergraduates and the local Princeton community come together to host Communiversity ArtsFest. This event features more than 200…

I owe my intellectual curiosity to my parents, who patiently waited as I waded through books in the now-defunct Borders bookstore that I considered my own.   I owe my intellectual curiosity…

Sin duda, el Día de Acción de Gracias es mi fiesta favorita. Implica calabazas, otoño, hojas crujientes, y tiempo con la familia. Además de todo esto, me encanta este día porque es el mejor momento…

I did not know I was a dancer or how much I loved to dance until I joined DoroBucci African Dance Company, Princeton’s premier African dance group. I first saw DoroBucci perform at Princeton Preview…

We’re a few weeks away from the start of the new year, and it certainly seems like this year will look nothing like it ever has before. For first-year students, the start of their Princeton…

When I first arrived on campus, I hadn’t ridden a bike in over two years. They say you never forget how, but I was still nervous when I first got on one again. It was my friend’s bike, and one day…

En el verano previo, al comienzo de mi segundo año como estudiante en la universidad de Princeton, la biblioteca Firestone se transformó. Durante mi tiempo como estudiante de primer año,…

No matter your political leanings, there is a place at Princeton for you. Princeton’s long list of student organizations includes many groups that focus on political engagement. We have the Princeton…

Este año, vi el show principal de Triangle Club, titulado “Once Uponzi Time,” una comedia protagonizada por una aspirante y joven empresaria perseguida por el fantasma de su abuelo Charles Ponzi, y…

Let’s start with the obvious—it has been an unusual year. No one has been spared the upheaval caused by COVID-19. And the racial unrest that continues to engulf the United States has made divisions…

Empecemos con lo obvio: ha sido un año extraño. El covid-19 ha transformado la vida de cada persona, sin excepción. Y las tensiones raciales que siguen absorbiendo los Estados Unidos han hecho las…

This summer, I was a content strategy intern at Facebook. You may be wondering, “what exactly is content strategy?” Think about it this way, when you create a post on Facebook, there’s text that says…

Hace treinta años, entré en el campus de Princeton como estudiante universitario de primera generación de un pequeño pueblo, con la meta de obtener un título en política y postularme a la facultad de…

Like many of my peers, I was forced to change my plans for the summer as the world shifted online due to COVID-19. While my sophomore summer didn’t turn out exactly how I expected, I feel fortunate…

This is now my fourth semester tutoring "MAT 104: Calculus II" at Princeton's McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Hearing this often comes as a shock to my friends given that I'm an English…