Shecky’s Beauty Night Out in NYC

Above: Maria Kucinski, Erica Swallow, Jamall Oluokun and Kriti Bhandari I recently attended my first Shecky’s Beauty Night Out with three lovely friends (pictured above). Shecky’s is most known for their Girls Night Out, an event that pulls together the best of fashion, cocktails, food and fun! They also have Holiday Night Out and Getaways!…

Make a Dent in the World Water Crisis!

Dear Friends, I’m trying to help put a dent in the world water crisis and I need your help. I’ve created three projects via charity:water, each with a goal of raising $5,000, enough funds to build a water well in a community in need of clean water. I’m asking that all of my friends and…

NYU RAN Alumni Mixer Tomorrow

Hey NYU friends! Are you going to be at the NYU Recent Alumni Network Alumni Mixer tomorrow? Weikai (my boyfriend) and I will be there. See you there! Click on the invitation above for more details!

I’m a Gilman Scholar! Are you?

Above is an interview that I did with the Institute of International Education about my experience as a Gilman Scholar. I discussed my Gilman experience as an NYU in Shanghai study abroad student in China and offered advice to current applicants for the Gilman Scholarship. Wish I was more interesting! I need to start reading…

College Time Line.

My friend, Cheng, sent me this via email. It’s a timeline of college. It’s completely fitting, being that I just took my last final last week and I’m graduating in two days. Cannot wait! Enjoy this perfect illustration of what college is really like! Every New Semester: After 1st Week:After 2nd Week: Before the Mid-Term…

Burnt out? Final Exams? Summer Internships? Smoking Pot?

On April 20th I received another compelling email from the NYU Wellness Exchange, titled “Burnt out?”. Last time the Wellness Exchange sent out one of these emails it was about over-drinking. This time, on the national high holiday (4/20), it was only fitting for it to be about smoking pot. Read the image above, which…

Stern Semi-Formal 2009

Weikai accompanied me to the NYU Stern Semi-Formal last night. The venue, Capitale, was amazing. Dinner, on the other hand, was not so great. I had a rice pattie with vegetables… not as appealing as it might sound to my fellow vegetarians. The dancing was great, for the most part, though. The DJ wasn’t anything…

Living in NYC’s Legendary Discotheque — The Palladium

In 1985, Interior Design magazine wrote that The Palladium: “represents Arata Isozaki’s transformation of a vacant and rundown theater (originally built in 1854 as the Academy of Music) into an extraordinary interior that can only be described as a sleek new structure, the equivalent of a seven-story building suing more than 200 tons of steel,…