I find myself walking down the street to a chorus of “Welcome to Egypt!” — sometimes in a variety of European languages...I’ve become used to the idea that this feeling of relative otherness is a part of living within another culture.
A gigantic disco ball in the middle of the Jardin de Luxembourg, an abandoned DJ stadium with neon lights playing electronic music, red waterfalls behind a lawn of golden cardboard discs like stars fallen from the sky, a field of opened-up, spread out red umbrellas, numerous desk lamps by a little stream elegantly illuminating the water, the stones, the people in the Park Buttes Chaumont, over-dimensional light crystals on the Notre Dame—these are just some of the many installations for “Nuit Blanche,” one night for the people of Paris to see and interact with contemporary art.
Everywhere I go, I’m continually surprised by how much Brazilians are willing to share. They’re eager to show me everything about their culture and way of life—one that’s so different in many ways from mine in the U.S.
When Danes ask “Hi, how are you?” they actually expect to sit down for a good ten or 20 minutes and hear how you’re doing, whereas for Americans, it is a greeting in passing.
Zeta Alpha seeks to restore lost pleasures of the novel
Beyond Twilight: the role of recreational reading on campus.
On Thursday evening, Antonella Sorace, professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, spoke in Pendleton about her research on bilingual children in her lecture, “One Brain, Two Languages, Many Advantages.”
The real world benefits and social stigmas of attending an elite university
The question remains: how much should rankings really matter in the college search? Is admission to the “elite” echelon of society an inalienable social privilege, or does it cripple students more than they know?
The Nine Roads to Recovery
One of the many drawbacks of midterms is the inevitable disconnect from reality that they create. Instead of nuclear winter symbolizing the “end of the world,” an unfinished p-set becomes a far more daunting event.
The odd rumor reaches their ears about a stolen laptop during a high-traffic weekend, but they are reassured that it was the work of nefarious off-campus guests (i.e. boys) and that the Wellesley community has been violated.
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