Tiger Twin Tea Talks: Recent Episodes
Savannah Pobre & Katelyn Rodrigues
We are current Princeton students (and roommates!) excited to share our diverse undergraduate experiences with y'all! We host Tuesday Tea Talks while sipping and spilling the tea on the many dimensions of life at Princeton :) Feel free to reach out to us with topic recs or if you have any questions!
For our last episode as Princeton seniors, we wanted to thank all our listeners for being a part of this journey with us! We hope you enjoyed hearing about our chaotic lives! While our jobs have pulled us to different cities post-grad, we look forward to reconnecting with you all annually to show that tiger pride never dies…at Princeton Reunions! Save the date for May 2024!
The Tiger Twins are back from our hiatus as PTL (post thesis life) and graduation bound! Come along with us on this brief recap of all the festivities and final academic assignments of our undergraduate career at Princeton :)
Welcome on Stephanie Monson, a chemical / biological engineering and figure skating star! Fun fact, is that Stephanie is the friend we have known the longest (besides each other, of course!). We even rehash a throwback to the freshman year times :) This episode, Stephanie talks about her thesis where she is working with a well known drug (tune in to find out the secret sauce!! haha, jk!) and the various activities she’s been a leader for on campus. Stephanie has a contagious energy about herself, so you won’t want to miss this episode!
Welcome on Trish, an olddd friend from freshman year! Tune in for a laid back conversation with this physics major, and Women's Lightweight Crew athlete! However, be careful not to take us too seriously or else you might catch the Senior Thesis Scaries!!
Welcome back from spring break, tigers! This episode is a quick recap of how we spend our spring break which included a Glee Club performance tour to the Balkans and some west coast chill. Good luck in the Sweet 16 to our Mens Basketball Team!
Just the tiger twins are back for our last midterms podcast :( maybe it’s a crime to feel sentimental about your last midterms szn at Princeton… on this short episode we discuss our spring break plans and give y’all some midterms encouragement! Hang in there tigers!
This week hear from another roomie duo! Axidi is a SPIA major and Cynthia is COS - this episode is a testimony to the wild places you will meet lifelong friends and a reminder to always live in the moment. There is so much to be a part of in college, and both of these guests have quite literally sampled many different ways you can spend your time in college!
This week we welcome a dear friend from the OG Princeton Preview squad Est. April 16, 2019, Silvana Nasim! This episode covers everything from current events, space 🚀, and the bse to ab degree pipeline ;) Make sure to listen all the way to the end for arguably one of the wisest pieces of advice we've heard from a podcast guest so far!
For the second week of classes we are joined by the dynamic duo, Thomas and Ally! While our podcasts do lean STEM, this may be the pinnacle! Listen to the end to hear perhaps the most prized wisdom so far from Princeton seniors as well as an overview of their theses and the unique activities they've been involved in!
Join us in welcoming the freshmen Brekkie Squad (Nick Oyer, Allison Rodrigues, and Emma Smithwick) on air! For those of you who have yet to meet the coolest freshmen on campus, on this episode you can hear from them about their prospective majors and what they're looking forward to in their second semester as spring classes have just begun!
What's up With Wintersession (aka. www?)!!! Happy New Year from the TigerTwins! Greetings from our beloved Princeton abode where we begin the eventful journey that is our last semester on campus! This episode we bring you the diversity of events and classes offered during an exclusive annual Princeton tradition called Wintersession (which has returned in full swing since the pandemic).
Happy Deans Date Tigers! Coming to you post Tiger Twins annual Winter Wonderland Christmas party!! A special thank you to our lovely guests, Halle and Anna for an impromptu podcast appearance. Halle is an all star senior at Princeton—if you know her, you know she does it all! Anna is a junior genius who is the queen of efficiency and multitasking as well as the newest co-president of the Katzenjammers! Make sure to listen through to our winter break plans! Happy Holidays and see y’all in 2023 <3
This week we host Anna Glowski, a senior at Princeton, to spill the tea on ORFE (Operations Research & Financial Engineering)! Tune in to hear some underrated facts about Princeton’s very own Liberty Bell, Cloccer, and just how great Fine Hall really is ;)
Holidays on hault while we dish out the Astro deets! Meet Princeton’s girl boss, Camille Reeves, a senior Astrophysics major from Houston, TX! Stay tuned to the end of the episode where Camille shares her coveted advice on how to make the most of your Princeton college experience and shares her experience as a leader in several activities on campus including club sports and TigerTrends!
Welcome our lovely friends from Princeton’s Great Class of 2023, Sloan Huebner and Corinna Brueckner! This week we’ll be getting frisky and fruity on the podcast as Slo&Co tell us about their lives as Sociology and German majors at Princeton, reflect on the best four years, and talk about what's in store post-grad!
This week we chat with Shruti Venkat who's a senior Econ major at Princeton, over some questionable milk tea containing mango popping boba! Tune in to hear about the wide array of activities Shruti has been involved in throughout her time at Princeton including being an entrepreneur herself! Much love to this kind and talented woman who does it all <3
The hosts are back at ya for a short episode on our tips for how to succeed in midterms and create productive study habits/vibes! We also introduce a twist on our outro! Good luck on midterms to all you smart tigers out there <3
This episode, we invited one of our classmates, Srishti, a senior at Princeton studying Politics, to chat about the activities she's been involved in throughout her 4 years here! We talk everything from Princeton Debate Panel (PDP), to starting a baking club, and what it's like being an international student (from Dubai!) with a TWIN on campus!
We have a special guest, Caroline Kirby on air this week! Known for her radiant lighting and themed rides on the daily with fire playlists, Caroline shares her inspiring story of how she got into the spin groove! Also, tune in to hear her spill the tea on SPIA .vs. Politics at Princeton and life on slopes! Read her spotlight published in the Daily Princetonian: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/04/princeton-dillon-fitness-spin-class
On this short and sweet episode, we tell y'all some of our Princeton Bucket List items we want to complete in our last year in the best damn place of all! Curated by yours truly <3 with the help of the Daily Princetonian published Ultimate Princeton Bucket List!
Welcome back! We are so excited to take you on this journey through our senior year at Princeton! Tune in for an update on our summer internships, what classes we're taking senior fall, and all of the fun (last) memories we have to look forward to!
Our last episode of Junior Year in College! This short episode is a bittersweet reflection on the highlights of this school year! We want to thank our fans & listeners for supporting us in beginning this journey and we can't wait to see what the future has in store for our podcast :)
This week we had the lovely experience of bringing on Aliya Ismagilova! An international student from the UK, Aliya tells us about what the transition to college in the US was like, the interesting activities she's been involved in at Princeton (congrats to sailing on their big win!) and her journey to choosing her major. Aliya is very wise so make sure to listen if you want her senior-screened advice for how to make the most of your college experience!
Tune in to help us welcome back our bestie, Cat Keim, from her spring semester abroad in Kenya! If you're interested in what the Princeton undergrad study abroad is like, definitely make sure to listen to Cat's experience! We also took some unexpected tangents if you're into that :)
Happy thesis grind to all the seniors on campus! We grabbed two of our favorite PTL(post thesis life) seniors to celebrate their friendiversary and chat about their Princeton undergrad highlights! Join us in welcoming Ashwin and Marley to a terrific (but chilly) Tuesday tea talk as our newest senior spotlights :)
This week we bring on a pre-frosh from Austin, TX, Katelyn's younger sister Allison, to talk about Princeton Preview, the admitted students event! A part of Princeton's Great Class of 2026, Allison asks us questions that involve spilling the tea on the juicy details of the Princeton experience!
Happy April ya fools :P For our first podcast drop of April, we've decided to take on 'true' crime storytelling for a spinoff featuring our EGR 277 Technology and Society partnered project on the the topic of the Metaverse! Buckle up for our debut at fanfiction, SCOT modeling, and Zuckerberg slander!
Today we discuss the ins and outs of the real elephant in the room currently -- room selection at Princeton! Listen in to get a brief synopsis of all the must-knows regarding Princeton Room Draw!
Today we sit down over some iced chai with a special guest, Debby Park, a senior in the Class of 2022 at Princeton. Debby has been our close friend and mentor since we came to Princeton and has participated in a plethora of activities and travel experiences in her 4 years here :) tune in to hear her story!
Your fav roomies are finally 21! We celebrated down South in NoLa!!! Tune in to hear the deets ;)
Today we're talking about our current year as juniors at Princeton! We give a rundown of our academic courses, extra-curricular activities, and what we've been doing for fun!
Happy Valentine's Day! We kicked off this week of loveee with a roomie chat featuring our third roommate Ainsley! Tune in for a short episode with lots of laughs :)
Your fav Princeton roomies chat about the unprecedented college experience during COVID which occurred over our sophomore year (Fall'21--Spring'22). We tell y'all about where we studied from, what classes we took (and spill the tea on them!), and how our activities panned out during a heavily restricted school year!
Curious how we found each other on Princeton's huge and very diverse campus? Tune in to hear all the deets and the wholesome story about how this podcast came to be :)
We are current Princeton students (and roommates!) excited to share our diverse undergraduate experiences with y'all! We host TigerTwinTeaTalks every Tuesday while giving our listeners an insider's look into the many dimensions of life at Princeton :) Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or topic requests!
It can be an overwhelming transition from high school to college especially when it comes to choosing what activities you'd like to get involved in! We chat about what activities we chose and what we enjoyed about them, as well as which activities we phased out, and which are still going strong!
Today, we tell y'all about how we navigated the daunting Princeton academics scene, including what classes we took, some of our memorable (and not so memorable:) experiences in the classroom, as well as the journey towards declaring our majors!