Thanks to Jennifer Brea '04, many freshmen experienced less than the requisite dose of anxiety before arriving on campus this month.
In January, after she was accepted early decision, Brea constructed a Website — which can be found at www.geocities.com/princeton04 — to help incoming freshmen get to know each other.
"I've made probably about three really good friends because of this," Brea said of her own experience making use of the site's features, which include a housing section and a photo gallery.
"I have tons of different sections," she added.
Brea said she started working on the Website after people she met on the Princeton Review Website encouraged her. The site's popularity started to increase in April, she said.
One of the earliest visitors to the site was Austin Starkweather '04, who met Brea through another Website at the end of 1999.
He said the site was instrumental in getting to know future classmates. "In the beginning, when there were only seven or 10 of us, I talked to them quite a bit," he added.
For Starkweather, learning more about students who were being accepted to the University was the best part of the site.
"The profiles were really neat. There was a chat room. That was pretty cool," he said.
Janine Jaffe '04 first visited the Website in June, and used it to organize a trip to New York City.
"I just thought it was cool that we were able to meet through it," she added.
Elizabeth Brush '04 said she has made a number of lasting friendships through the site.
"It's nice to talk to other people who are going to be in the same situation," she said, adding that she made a trip to Princeton to see the people she met using the Website.
Brea admitted, however, that when she started the Website, it was not really out of consideration for her future classmates. "In a way it was for selfish reasons," she noted.
Since she did not know any of them, she wanted to have a place where she and her fellow Princetonians could meet.
According to Brea, the Website has had quite a few visitors. "Right now I have about 15 percent of the class," she said.
Now that classes have begun, keeping up the site will be a difficult task, Brea said. Therefore, she has considered trying to find another site with which to merge.
"I'm really backlogged," she said. "The past few weeks have been really hectic."
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