Being in Athens during Greece’s financial meltdown has been an interesting experience. There has been a noticeable change in the city during this uncertain time for the country, and I wanted to…

When I was accepted to the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) as a teacher assistant, I panicked. PUPP is a college preparatory program for low income, high-achieving students from…

One hundred years ago, when organized Jewish life first began at Princeton University, no one would have imagined the long lines of students of all backgrounds waiting to get a delicious kosher lunch…

During move-in and the start of classes last week, I saw and heard fellow '16ers saying things like, "The last first day of move-in!" or "The last first day of class!" or "…

As a sophomore, one of the main questions facing me is which academic department I will enter as an upperclassman. Every Princeton undergraduate enters one of the 34 academic departments, almost like…

A few months ago, I went to Geneva to participate in one of Princeton's Global Seminars.  Global Seminars are seminar courses organized by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional…

In getting to know me, you learn very quickly that I have a penchant for nostalgia. In fact, there are probably few people who enjoy a good #tbt as much as I do, so a few are…

College awareness is like lighting a match against an imposing boulder at night. Each strike flicks the misconceptions away and the emerging flame denotes knowledge, yet the boulder still blocks the…

Traveling has always been what has motivated and excited me, so being able to study abroad has naturally been very high on my list of priorities during my years at Princeton. I first studied abroad…

Je suis ici à Paris ayant commencé mon semestre d'automne en France! Après un cours d’orientation pendant notre première semaine ici (avec des journées très chargées mais aussi très amusantes et…

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…