• Fashion’s Night Out: September 17th

    Fashion’s Night Out is the one night a year when clothing stores, from high end couturiers like Chanel to bargain stores like Forever 21 stay open late in celebration of the fashion industry. Held in major cities around the world, the night invites stores to host events, offer special deals, and generally invite the masses …

  • 121 Bis Rue de la Pompe: A Love Story

    On August 24th, 2013, I fell in love. Everyone warned me this would happen, that I would be whisked off into some fairy tale Parisian romance in the City of Love. I just never thought it would happen to me. I’m very practical, and I’m in Paris to study after all! But sure enough, four …

  • The Great Housing Crisis

    My first priority upon arriving in Paris, after seeing the Eiffel Tower of course, was to find permanent housing. For whatever reason, this wasn’t a huge concern of mine in the beginning. I had booked my first five nights in a hotel, and had the next ten nights secured in a hostel booked by MICEFA, …

  • Paris vs. New York

    At first glance, Paris has more commonalities with New York than glaring differences. Maybe it was a subconscious effort to avoid culture shock and homesickness, but my fellow New Yorkers and I reached similar conclusions after our first few days in the city of lights. Both are big cities, classic melting pots of adventure and …