1. Don't wear the lanyards they give you for your keys around your neck.
2. Do not stand anywhere around main campus (say frist) and ask, i'm lost, how do i get to forbes?
3. Do not carry around a pocket map of the general princeton area.
4. Do not say Prospect Avenue, or, do not ask what "The Street" is.
5. Don't talk about SATs or other high school-related academics.
5. Do Call Mathey "Math-y"
6. Don't Walk everywhere with the rest of your RA or OA group.
7. Get McCosh'ed on your first night for drinking.
8. Do rop and switch classes/precepts if you don't like them—it's not worth it being in a bad class/precept
9. Don't make yourself sick on frozon yogurt the first week
10. Do not wear tight black pants and halter tops to the street unless it's a theme night
11. Do not carry a backpack that is roughly the size of you
12. Do not hook up with the first senior guy you meet
13. Don't worry
14. Don't bring pocketbooks, jewelry or anything you really don't want to lose out with you to the Street and parties.
15. Beware of inspectors. They will fine you!
16. Disguise your vocabulary by using popular Princeton lingo like "Dinky", :The Street", and "preceptor".
17. Quickly get out of touch with all relevant current political and pop cultural phenomena.
18. Try to appear more like a regular college student by having an engaging conversation with a professor on a grassy lawn.
19. If you're worried about putting on the "Freshman Fifteen", you can use the workout machines found in Dillon Gym.
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