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(05/15/17 12:35am)
The dream, it has been said, is to find a partner of equivalent intellectual merit and productive potential as ourselves; to get married amid the towering buttresses of the University chapel, lit softly by the glow from the stained-glass windows; and to spend the rest of our days happily pursuing our interests and our goals, all the while extolling the virtues of our alma mater and contributing to its endowment in preparation for future generations, including, God willing, our own children.
(09/15/16 7:26pm)
This Olympic season was very much one of firsts — ranging from the to-be-confirmed retirement of the most decorated Olympian in history (Phelps may yet attempt another resurgence), to the first U.S. Olympian to compete in a hijab; from the first South American host city, to the first ever refugee team to compete in the storied Games. As classes at Princeton resumed, many of us still coasted on the excitement of the summer’s events, bolstered as we are by the presence of Olympians in our midst. Yet the Games aren’t over — not completely. In fact, they’re still ongoing, and the Paralympic Games conclude in just a few days.
(02/04/15 8:00pm)
After being on a swim team for all four years of high school, I’ve become accustomed to changing in the presence of teammates, both male and female. So when I walked into my hall bathroom the other day wearing nothing but my bath towel and confronted a girl using the men’s restroom, it was probably more embarrassing for her than it was for me. She apologized repeatedly and hurried out the door, but before she left, I heard enough of her rapid-fire explanation/simultaneous apology to understand that she had been locked out of the women’s restroom on account of the recent changes to the codes regulating the women’s restrooms.
(12/04/14 6:22pm)
With the amount of attention this election cycle has received recently, it seemed like a prudent idea to jump on the bandwagon and look into it myself. Although the platforms of the candidates, especially in the race for Undergraduate Student Government president, have been thoroughly examined (and which, to my chagrin, can be largely summed up with a few choice two-worders like “waffle fries,” “ripe fruit” and “bike reform”), very little light has been shed on the infractions that each candidate committed during the course of the campaign period. An email sent out by current USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 on Nov. 26actually contained a link to the penalty points incurred by each candidate thus far – not surprising, only four of 28 candidates actually lost points, and none of the violations exceeded 10 points.
(11/20/14 9:15pm)
I recently learned how to play Cards Against Humanity, and anyone who has ever played the game can probably attest to the perverse nature of the topics that inevitably arise. Many (actually most) of the cards are mildly (or more than mildly) racist, offensive or demeaning. In my particular game, several of the more memorable rounds involved the Three-Fifths Compromise, midgets and plenty of not-so-subtle sexual innuendos, none of which is suitable for print in a respectable publication like this.
(11/02/14 6:50pm)
A few days ago, after spending much of fall break recovering from the waves of pre-midterm stress, I was finally coherent enough to talk with some fellow classmates about the tests, what we thought of them and how well (or poorly) we thought we did on the exams (we may or may not have also taken bets on how low the curve would be). From the conversations I had, it became readily evident that we all utilized largely the same resources when preparing for the midterm — the same practice tests and previous exams on Blackboard, the same notes and class materials, the same textbooks and reading materials, the same office hours. But one factor stood out as a stark difference among many of us — our precepts and our preceptors.
(10/05/14 6:15pm)
The other day in the dining hall, I overheard a group of students exchanging academic horror stories much like old soldiers sharing their battle wounds.
(09/21/14 5:48pm)
In economics, a textbook would be called a highly inelastic good — each new generation of students inevitably needs it and, generally, each student will acquire it (often regardless of cost). Though the University's libraries have sets of these high-in-demand goods, they often sit on the shelves, unused, instead of being utilized by the students who need them the most.
(09/10/14 6:34pm)
For many returning undergraduate Princeton students, the month of August was the harbinger of good news. That month, a University committee tasked with evaluating the necessity of the grade deflation policy concluded that it should be rescinded. In place for the past decade, the grade deflation policy has capped the number of A grades any department could give to less than 35 percent.
(05/06/14 6:45pm)
It’s surprisingly easy nottobe a jerk. All it takes is a shred of self-consciousness and a degree of shame and humility. And yet, all too often (especially during celebratory periods), etiquette is disregarded and put aside while morals degenerate. Case in point — the recent Lawnparties.
(04/23/14 6:10pm)
It’s a trend that I initially started to realize during the middle of first semester, and as time went on, it became more apparent to me. Maybe it’s because we are all in the confines of the hallowed and respected institution of Princeton, where students have for past two hundred or so years have traversed these ancient halls in the pursuit of academic excellence and intellectual invigoration. Maybe it’s simply the effect of being around so many smart people.
(04/09/14 7:42pm)
With the first Preview happening this Thursday and the second one in a few weeks, Preview is certainly hovering in the minds of students and faculty alike. In particular, the administration’s decision to shorten the two Preview “weekends” into Preview “days” has resulted in the need to rearrange schedules and programs in order to accommodate as many events as possible within the greatly reduced span of time that prospective freshmen will be on campus. The pros and cons of the administration’s decision have already been covered fairly extensively, and it seems prudent, instead, to reflect on the ways that the previews can be successful regardless of the relatively late change that shortened Preview so much.
(03/27/14 7:36pm)
Over spring break, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in a Princeternship at the University of Southern California, but when the alumna who invited me introduced me to her coworkers, smiles quickly turned to looks of bemusement —“this is Jason, the three-day intern.” Though their reactions were understandable —after all, what sort of comprehensive experience can an “intern” really garner in the span of a few days? — it also reiterated, for me, a rather severe flaw in the conception of vocational experimentation and with the widespread understanding of internships as a whole.
(03/04/14 7:27pm)
As spring break draws ever closer, many students on campus are increasingly filled with a sense of dread, an overbearing feeling of anxiety, for midterms week is fast approaching. Yet, for many students, midterms week is already here. And for others, midterms week won’t take place until after spring break.
(02/19/14 6:45pm)
As first semester drew to a close and final grades came out, I was reminded of a common sentiment that I had heard from many of my engineering friends — that being an engineering major is “hard.” In and of itself, such a subjective statement isn’t really anything I can argue against. But then, of course, comes the catch — a B.S.E. degree isn’t just difficult, it’s more difficult than the alternative, an A.B. degree. Being an A.B. major myself (and finding it plenty difficult enough), I, of course, couldn’t let such claims slide.
(02/12/14 6:29pm)
My brother recently sent me a photo of a bathroom stall at his school, the University of California at Berkeley, and over the toilet seat dispenser, someone had attached a sign that read “Stanford diplomas, take one.” Naturally, I was tempted to replicate the idea at Princeton, replacing the school name of Stanford with the name Harvard, of course.
(02/05/14 7:58pm)
Princeton isn’t exactly known for being cheap. It ranks among the top universities in the world — but at the same time, the cost of a Princeton education is equally high up on the list. The elevated costs wouldn’t be such a huge consideration, though, if it weren’t for the fact that Princeton students, on the whole, also receive fewer hours of instruction than students at other collegiate institutions, rendering the price of one hour of Princeton class time much more expensive than the price of an hour of class at other colleges.
(12/04/13 9:43pm)
The Princeton administration is undoubtedly dedicated to keeping its students as safe as possible. But in the process of pursuing policies that promote safety, it seems that the administration has chosen to unnecessarily emphasize some aspects of campus safety over others. Case in point: fire safety.
(11/10/13 10:01pm)
Since President Eisgruber announced his intention to create a committee to re-evaluate the controversial policy known as grade deflation, the initial furor (or excitement, or even optimism, might be better words) among the student body has largely settled down. Tiger Magazine, though, recently published a satirical article “announcing” that the committee had returned its findings early and had recommended that “no more than 10 percent of the grades given in any department should be A’s.” I found the article to be highly amusing and forwarded it to my parents, thinking little of it.
(10/10/13 9:56pm)
As the Triangle Club song goes, "New Haven has its murders?, Philadelphia decays and in the town that’s home to Brown,? they smoke away the days. They kill themselves in Ithaca?; in Hanover it snows. There’s violent crime in NYC?; in Cambridge egos grow."