December is a special month, not because of finals (ahhh!), but because of the number of festivities in the month. Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah all fall in the month of December, and there’s not better place to be at such a time than Yale University! Because we are extremely multicultural, all these celebrations are held on our campus, and I got attend all them, munching away at the variety of foods offered at all the different events.

The Yale-Harvard Annual Game was on us again, and this time Yale would be hosting its enemy. I’d been looking forward to the Game all semester long, firstly because I was hoping that this would be the year in which we broke our losing streak of a few years, and secondly because I was excited about seeing all my great Harvard friends again! I went to Harvard last year for the Game, and was warmly welcomed by their students in spite of the fact that we were from opposing teams.

This weekend the Yale Muslim Students Association carried out a barbeque, regardless of the threatening New Haven rain. Being a Muslim, the MSA is a great association that I feel has heavily complimented my life at Yale. But even for non-Muslims, the events on awareness of the Muslim world and numerous efforts to combat calamities such as the Pakistani floods and the current famine in Eastern Africa. Here's a glimpse of the great barbeque!

There are a lot of wonderful things that are attributed to Paris. The people with their engaging French accents and unrivaled devotion to wine, their ever-famous crepes with almost every kind of flavoring from nutella to raspberry sauce. There are also the more physical attributes such as the Eiffel Tower (yeah, we grow up hearing about this one), the Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Louvre, all sights that tourists frequent without fail. But all of these things are synonymous with the outsider.