Stepping off the train in early September - out of summer and back into Princeton - I was greeted by friends who couldn't stop talking about one thing: the new Whitman College."Just wait till you see Whitman, Elinor, it's gorgeous.""The building is so huge; it's like trying to navigate through ...

Film festivals usually only feature movies that that wouldn't make it to a local multiplex, but this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, playing until May 3, runs against the grain. It opened with Tina Fey's "Baby Mama" and will close with "Speed Racer," directed by the Wachowski ...

   I'm just going to say it: No matter who you are, or what type of movies you like, you should head over to the Garden Theatre and see "The Visitor" while it's here. You won't regret it.Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor" tells the story of a middle-aged professor at Connecticut ...

A good fashion show always has some sort of cohesion, something that pulls it all together. Whether the designer created a collection based on paintings, music or a girl walking down the street, there is always a unifying theme. For the seventh-annual Fashions Speaks fashion show last Friday night, it ...

Kitt Peak Observatory, Arizona. The stars glimmer in and out of view as a patch of unseen cloud rolls gently overhead. Bundled thickly against the desert wind, we shake our heads at each other in disappointment. Though our run is long - eight nights in total - it takes months, ...

Dear Sexpert, I was invited to Houseparties by a good friend, and I said I would go with him. I'm really excited, but I realize that I don't really know how to act with him on the Street in front of his friends, at his club, etc. What is appropriate ...

1.    The overuse of the phrase "Orange Bubble." 2.    Ivy Garden sans George (maybe he's still at New York Fashion Week?)3.    Having an ineffectual government (oh, wait...)4.    Hiding your microwave/dog/six-pack/other contraband in your closet.5.    Explaining Princeton vocabulary (Dinky, Bicker, etc.) to non-Princetonians. 6.    Working on Columbus and MLK Jr. days. ...

The semester is almost over and, for seniors in particular, time is running out to do those things you've always wanted but never had the time to do. this week, Anne Ferrer '09 asks, "What's top on your list of things to do at Princeton before you graduate?"Conor Sutherland '10"Swim ...

Dear Rob,Go out and meet people during freshman year. It's comfortable, no doubt, to spend every weekend with the people in your dorm. There are 1,200 special people in your class; hanging out with the same 12 is unnecessarily limiting. Meet as many as you can, and listen to their ...

Dear Sarah,You think you've planned everything perfectly. From the time you were accepted to Princeton in December, you spent hours mapping out your ideal undergraduate experience. Late at night, you scoured websites, the registrar's course guide and thefacebook.com for every class you will take, extracurricular you will join and person ...

Dear Antonia,Reading this letter, you are probably expecting a cheat sheet: a bulleted list that details your adventures and doles out advice that will ensure your wellbeing at Princeton. The idea of a "life" review sheet with recurrent themes (over-analysis, stressing unnecessarily) and terms ("street feet," "chain-chewing," "Wa-run") appeals to ...

Dear Tom of 2004,Salutations! You have just chosen your future alma mater based on the most important of criteria: the Dinky. You came to Princeton because you thought a campus that had its own train line was oh-so-slightly Harry Potter-esque. You loved the dormitories that looked like castles. (I can ...

Last weekend, I sat at the University Orchestra's last concert of the year. I watched two of my best friends play their trumpet and cello and realized that this wasn't just their last concert. Some part of it belonged to those of us who had come to cheer them on ...

Dear Mr. Rog,I am so glad you are taking a moment to read this letter before you walk from Nassau Street to the other side of the FitzRandolph Gate. You are about to enter a beautiful chaos. You are at Princeton University now. Get on it! I cannot begin to ...

Dear Brian,Reopen your high school literature textbook and re-read that poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses." An "idle king" you are not - more like a traveler from a foreign country taking in a place, its customs, traditions, smells and vistas, going through the motions of daily life with an ...

Dear Veronica,Senior spring at Princeton is a kind of romantic, eternal orange sunset that leaves seniors surprisingly detached from their manic, sleep-deprived selves of the previous three-and-a-half years and finally able to reflect a bit. My first thought is that everything went far too quickly. And, amazingly enough, I find ...

Dear Freshman Self, Ah, if I knew then what I know now, I could fill a thousand blue books. Or write 10 theses. But instead, I'll try to compress the wisdom I've gathered over my four years here into the rough size of a Blackboard post. Despite the all the ...