Dean's Date is over. Woohoo. Now all I have to do is get through two more finals, and I'm home free. What's more, I have a nifty T-shirt to show for it. Princeton as an institution seems to think that ...(back to the article)
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"dear real world, i will be spacing out the deadlines in the future, because it is more convenient for me. when i was in college i was forced to write 30 pgs that were all due on the same day. i was always really tired after this deadline. i just didnt think it was fair....." when did princeton start letting in such wimps? if the profs and admins have a standard deadline, thats life. there are kids would lay down on railroad tracks to attend princeton. you will face them again in the real world, one day soon. they will not pat you on the back because you had to write a lot and study at princeton. they will bulldoze.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but free T-shirts are what get me out of bed every morning. In all seriousness, the issue isn't having everything due at once (which, granted, is rather harrowing), but having so much to begin with. I appreciate not having to contend with with essays and exams at the same time, so I sort of support Dean's Date in the context of our university. But given the structure of our academic year and exam periods--that is, the fact that we have THREE WEEKS of paper-writing and cramming--professors take tremendous liberties with the amount of work they assign, simply because we have what seems like so much time to complete it all. At other colleges, Reading Period consists of a long weekend, and finals of a few days. If we didn't have such a protracted finals period, you can be sure that professors wouldn't stick us with a final paper, a final exam, and a final presentation all for the same class. I don't know which of these systems I'd prefer, but in either case, I'd still want a T-shirt to document it.
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I like this article, and I agree with the author completely.
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@ Disappointed - because so little happens here. Check out the other Ivy's newspapers--much of their fodder is news from New Haven or Philly or NYC. We simply don't have as much action @ Princeton.
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Re: Disappointed- Echoing what was said below, too many people baselessly bash the Prince without good reason. This is an editorial providing commentary relevant to a lot of people on this campus; it's a good article. The Prince admittedly has some problems, but by continually criticizing the Prince, people make the job thankless, and the paper won't improve. just a thought.
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Or are you just trying to find things to complain about? This is one of the better opinion columns I've run across, too...bashing the Prince may be the 'thing' to do now, but at least bash it where it's due.
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why can't we have articles like a real newspaper?
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