So . . . my parents gave Sam a Costco Membership for Christmas (yes, we got it early). And we feel like we have entered this new ph...

270 books and 30 articles--that is the amount of reading I have done for my general examinations (which start on Monday--eep!). It's q...

Churches and trains They all look the same to me now They shoot you some place While we ache to come home somehow. --"Amsterda...

So this makes me feel pretty legit. Not gonna lie. (Also, if you go to the Princeton History Department Graduate Students  page, I'm ...

I just think these pictures are funny:  The sun was so bright and the struggle was oh, so real. 

Today I ventured outside of Madrid and headed to Segovia, a medieval Spanish town set on a hill. [A view for sore eyes. But not for sor...

Sometimes I randomly find new or old musicals and get obsessed with one or two songs from those musicals. (Sometimes, it's the entire mu...

Did I mention I'm studying three languages this summer? I'm taking a beginning French course, an intermediate German course on Germa...

My friend Chloe and I have decided to do a "Russki Chas" (Russian hour) this summer in order to practice and improve our Russian. ...

What gets posted on Instagram. Reality. 

When I was moving to Salt Lake, I was looking for an apartment. My cousin Leslie helped me find a place. It's been great being in her wa...

Yup.  There's a reason that I am not working for the youth magazine. 

Once upon a time in a land not too far away, Megan was a cute little twelve-year-old with huge glasses, braces, and an obsession with ancie...

what i've been listening to lately: guster . iron and wine . sara barellies . chess . jump little children . if my life were...

09 August 2016  Dear Pavel (my messanger bag from Ukraine),  Well, it's been a good run. Four years, three months, two weeks, a...