Like other Ivy League institutions and academia at large, Princeton has a long and mixed record on racial diversity. Founded as a home of scholarship for affluent white men, the University has attempted a gradual transformation into a home for talented scholars of all colors and backgrounds. Nowhere is this ...

For Ruth Ochs GS, finding a place to live was the last thing she wanted to worry about when she was nine months pregnant. A rising sixth-year music graduate student living in the Lawrence apartment complex, Ochs’ lease was set to run out two weeks after her first child was ...

When Rebecca Arkin ’10 walked into her first neuroscience precept last fall, the first words out of her graduate student preceptor’s mouth were: “Hi ... I’ve never really precepted before. Do any of you know how this is supposed to go?”The preceptor proceeded to “hem and haw about exactly what ...

The recent national discussion about the affordability of higher education has centered on undergraduate funding following the flurry of financial aid policy changes at several institutions. Little of that conversation, however, has focused on aid for graduate students.Similar to undergraduate financial aid, graduate school funding can be need-based, taking into ...

Yaron Ayalon GS remembers the first time he attended Class Day, the ceremony at which the outgoing undergraduate class celebrates its four years at Princeton by, among other things, granting honorary class memberships.“Grad students,” he said, “were never mentioned, [except to say that] we also had grad students here and ...

When my college friends ask me, "How's grad school?" I can tell from their hopeful looks and upbeat tone that they want me to tell them how much fun I'm having. After all, I am still in an academic setting, whereas most of them have been waking up at 6 ...

Over the course of the last year, nearly all of my old undergraduate classmates have asked me the same question: Just what could I have been thinking when I made the decision to return to Princeton for graduate school? I had an answer ready for the first friend, because I ...