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E-Prince"Tool” is the Princeton buzzword I hear most often. Probably because I am one. According to The Daily Princetonian’s dictionary, the “tool shed” houses Wilson School majors, USG members and ‘Prince’ writers. Though the term is protean, it’s ...(back to the article)
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"Peak"? Is that on purpose?
haha i was going to comment that you can't be a tool because you're not in tower, but then i got to the part about being hosed. from tower, i suppose?
A tool is someone who pursues money, sex, power for its own worth at the exclusion of everything else. If someone who (openly) loves finance pursues it--like, I suppose, our valedictorian--who can complain?
See, by condemning tools at this age, we're saving them a lot of misery. It's our way of preventing ppl from becoming miserable wrecks by the time they're forty.
Don't worry about being a tool. The fact that you can comfortably talk about being hosed excludes you.
toolish behabior ISN'T widely rewarded
As someone frequently derided as a tool, I like this article a lot.
Writing an article for the prince is an action. Writing an article about whether or not you are a tool is inherently toolish. Therefore, your actions make you a tool. Also, I'm pretty certain you can't be a member of a group without that entailing certain actions you must be performing.
I am aware that pointing this out probably makes me a tool. So be it.
Hong, you're my tool.
Toolism is not rewarded, and apparently the person who wrote this doesn't know how much of a tool she really is.
The better joke/analogy is that Princeton is Home Depot, with the whole orange color.
This is a terrible article. What a tool. Seriously. If you think you're not a tool, good for you. You don't need to plead your case to the entire school. Are you kidding me?