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(02/03/16 6:46pm)
As a Classics major here at Princeton, at times I have wondered whether my education has given me a limited or narrow worldview. Even though I was born in Korea and lived there for 11 years, I can name more Roman emperors and their achievements than those of Koreans. I know even less about other regions. I have tried to extend my horizons by taking a class in the Near Eastern Studies Department and Program in South Asian Studies, but the fact remains that I have had an incredibly Eurocentric education up to this point.
(12/01/15 6:50pm)
“Too poor for college, too rich for financial aid” is a phrase that describes the awkward financial status of those who can afford college, but not comfortably. Many upper middle class families belong to this income bracket. They are financially secure, but even for them, the extravagant cost of college these days is a huge burden. Therefore, when it comes to summer planning, many such families find that they simply cannot justify spending additional thousands of dollars so that their children can participate in summer study abroad programs.
(10/21/15 6:00pm)
The Pass/D/Fail option is available for students between the beginning of the seventh and the end of the ninth week of classes. Commonly referred to as P/D/F, this option is designed to encourage students to explore disciplines that they have little prior knowledge of without fear of negatively impacting their GPA. Currently, students may P/D/F up to four courses throughout their time at the University.
(10/07/15 6:40pm)
Over and over again, I have been told that Greek life is not really a “thing” at Princeton. Before I even applied to Princeton, my Orange Key Tour guide empathetically told me that he did not know anyone who was involved in Greek life on campus. During the entirety of my first semester of freshman year, I did not see anything that suggested the contrary, and I believed that eating clubs were such an integral part of social life at Princeton that most people simply did not choose to join Greek life. Yet, beginning in the second semester of my freshman year, many of my friends expressed the desire to rush. Numbers suggest that they were not among the minority, and that Greek life is a big enough presence that I don’t quite understand how my Orange Key Tour guide never knew anyone in one.
(09/22/15 8:39am)
I have a love-hate relationship with food. Often, I refuse to eat anything despite feeling hungry. Other times, when I feel very stressed, I do the opposite and gorge myself with every type of dessert the dining hall has to offer. But most days, I eat a balanced, nutritional diet. I’m aware of what I eat, and I watch to make sure I’m consuming the types of nutrients I need.
(05/03/15 6:30pm)
My three future roommates and I had obsessively checked room reviews, floor plans and the kinds of rooms people got with our draw time last year. We clicked on the little hearts next to the room numbers that we liked and jotted our top choices (the quads with four singles known as Quingles, located in Bloomberg Hall for Butlerites).
(04/12/15 6:00pm)
This year, I enrolled in the Humanities Sequence, a year-long class that seeks to examine canonical Western literature — from Homer to Virginia Woolf — in an interdisciplinary manner. The course is taught by multiple professors who each possess different areas of expertise and interests; this setting allows students to study the same work in sometimes a historical, sometimes a philosophical, and sometimes a literary manner.
(03/25/15 8:20pm)
In his recent column, “Run Dining Halls like a Business,” fellow opinion columnist Newby Parton argues that University meal plans are a “horrible and scandalous” deal that would “bankrupt a real restaurant in a week.” His strong assessment leads him to a simple conclusion: “Find the waste. Slash it. Give dining hall incentives to cut costs. Let students opt out of the meal plan after the first semester, but offer them a reasonable price so they will want to stay. Bring in restaurateurs to help.”
(03/01/15 6:30pm)
Nobody wants life advice from an 18-year-old. Instead of subjecting my audience to this unnecessary and fruitless endeavor, I will act as a mouthpiece for someone who is much wiser and more experienced than I am. Sarah is my best friend’s mom, who would tag along on our movie dates and make us questionable “green smoothies.” One day, she was giving my friend and me a talk about how we should approach success. It was the season of college applications, of heightened anxiety and inevitable rejections.
(02/15/15 6:25pm)
The Daily Princetonian recently published a column titled “Teachers who look like us,” written by Tehila Wenger. She argues in favor of professors who reflect the diversity of the student body which would provide mentorship and guidance that is more than simply academic. There are obvious benefits to a diverse faculty; a controlled experiment revealed “the level of critical analysis and alternatives was higher in groups exposed to minority viewpoints.” Puzzlingly, while Wenger cites these benefits of diversity as the reason to hire more underrepresented faculty members, she actually claims to learn best not from diverse professors, but rather from ones who look like her.
(01/11/15 8:40pm)
I believe in unconditional freedom of speech and I condemn the attack on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, that occurred in Paris. However, I am disturbed nonetheless by the oversimplification of Islam and portrayal of terrorism that I have noticed on both social media platforms and the news.
(12/01/14 6:44pm)
If I had been deeply disturbed after reading the Rolling Stone’s article on the rape culture at the University of Virginia, I was even more so after watching the uncut interview video of Nicole Eramo, associate dean of students and head of the Sexual Misconduct Board at UVA. The article discusses the rape culture at this southern campus, where Greek life dominates the social life and where a girl, who goes by the pseudonym Jackie, was gang-raped by seven Phi Kappa Psi brothers as a freshman. This interview was conducted by a student media organization, WUVA, weeks prior to the publication of the article. The interviewee —Eramo —is who Jackie went to for support at the end of her freshman year.
(10/14/14 6:33pm)
“Yeah, most people hate their writing seminars,” a junior told me outside J Street Library when I made a face to his question about whether I enjoyed my writing seminar. Immediately, a freshman boy who had been sitting across me protested, claiming that he immensely enjoyed his writing seminar and that he felt it did an adequate job in helping him become a better writer.
(09/30/14 9:53pm)
The week we, the freshman class, marched through FitzRandolph Gate, we were bombarded with activities that initiated the four-year-long journey that will be our Princeton careers. Some of them instilled the expectations the University has of us, some set the tone and others acknowledged the problems that exist on Princeton’s campus.