With a research grant in my pocket, I hopped on a plane to Sonoma, California, to spend the last week of August at the Jack London State Historic Park. My senior thesis on Jack London had officially…

You also may read a French version of this blog post. I’m here in Paris having started my fall semester in France! After an orientation course during our first week here (consisting of days that…

So, as many of you know, I am an active member of Princeton’s Jewish community. I happen to be Orthodox, meaning that I observe a very traditional version of Jewish practice. This often comes with a…

While the most prominent eating option for upperclassmen is to join an eating club, almost a third of upperclassmen don't join one. They either choose to continue with the dining hall meal plans…

For as long as I can remember, studying abroad was at the very top of my college checklist. I knew without a doubt that I was going to take advantage of the opportunity to study in Paris for a…

With the beginning of my senior year upon me, the inevitable has come: thesis. I meet this reality with a strange feeling. I actually got a chance to sort of start my thesis a few months back because…

What do Mike Birbiglia, Aidy Bryant, the cast of "Silicon Valley," the cast of "Broad City," and Amy Poehler all have in common? If you said "They're all people that Lauren has obsessive comedy…

Hey hey hey! I'm home now for August and am happily doing some catch-up writing for this summer's adventures. Makenna has definitely been holding down the summer blogging with her super cool…

I leave my night photography class on one end of campus and begin to make my way to the other end, to my room. It is incredibly warm out, so I take off my coat and drape it on one shoulder, perhaps…

Image Three years ago around this time, I was applying to Princeton, and I had no idea what I wanted…

Hey all, Rachel here. Just some casual rambling on how I'm planning my final Princeton Disability Awareness carnival of my time at Princeton. Tonight, I will attend a training session for my…

I haven’t experienced a South Texas November in four years. It’s nothing spectacular; the palm trees remain green, the sun forgets to turn off its summertime rays, and people still wear shorts and…

When I was applying to Princeton, I believed I had a sense of what academic life at Princeton might entail. While I didn’t realize quite how amazing the professors are or how many beautiful libraries…

Though I do not make an exclusive claim (as I know there are exceptions), one of the outcomes of modernist painting was its liberation of color. While Van Gogh’s colors are largely the right…

I'm just coming from the Lewis Center Open Studios, where all the majors and minors in the Program in Visual Arts opened their studios to fellow artists, friends, instructors and…

I am no stranger to alienation. I grew up as a white Mexican in a Texas border town where classmates and teachers openly labeled me as a “foreigner.” I was a hidden minority in all respects: A…

Before we graduate, Princeton students complete a little something called the  Image And by…

Among undergraduates, mathematics is perhaps one of the University’s most polarizing subjects. For the quantitatively inclined, the rigors of mathematical reasoning provide both a fascinating…

When I’m not busy with schoolwork, classes, extracurricular activities, eating, sleeping or catching up with friends, I love exploring the campus and all of its surroundings. Despite…

When I was in second grade, our teacher helped us make these giant posters filled with drawings and facts about our little seven-year-old selves. Mine was titled "All About Aliisa…

At noon on Jan. 16, 2014, my first semester at Princeton finished. After finishing my thoughts in response to the devilish last problem of my physics final, abounding joy and relief at having made it…

Hey all!So winter break has been happening these past few weeks, and I have loved every minute of relaxation. But there’s been this nagging excitement in me since the day I left campus. That day, I,…

LIGHTS. CAMERA. JEWS. This year, I have been granted the privilege of directing the Center for Jewish Life’s annual play.  This play, open to the entire university regardless of religious…

How does an engineer find herself in London spending a week analyzing Pre-Raphaelite photography and painting for an Art History class? Interested in international development, I typed "poverty"…

The college experience, perhaps more so than any other, should be defined by a sense of freedom – the freedom to study what interests us, the freedom to transform ourselves into whomever we want to…