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(05/04/18 2:20am)
The power box appeared in my courtyard last week, stuck on a wood post and silent, the harbinger of spring in Princeton. Soon, the wooden fences will appear, unannounced and under cover of darkness, to be followed by white tents and finally white-collared alumni, ready for a weekend of nostalgic revelry. Reunions, our annual campus-wide, beer-fueled bonanza, is right around the corner, and among all the boozing and schmoozing, plenty of Tigers (this senior included) will be on the hunt for that special someone in orange and black.
(04/27/18 12:53am)
I received a text from my mom confirming that the check-up went well, and the mass in my dog Bosco’s stomach wasn’t cancerous. Two days later, I was studying in Frist for my psychology midterm the following day when a text from my mom popped up on my computer screen next to my notes about eighteenth-century mental institutions. She texted my sisters and I that the doctors were putting Bosco down because of internal bleeding. She asked me to FaceTime her to say goodbye.
(04/24/18 10:19pm)
Imagine a crowded living space with bad plumbing, old hallways, and exposed pipes, where toilets overflow and make an unsanitary disaster, where human feces are found in the shower, urine found in trash cans, shower curtains removed as pranks, and then people of color and people of unprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds have to clean it all up.
(02/26/18 4:24am)
Most technological breakthroughs come from the powerhouses that populate Silicon Valley, but the next life-altering app may be only a few lines of code and a mouse click away for students in the University’s Computer Science building.
(01/12/18 3:08am)
I hate doing laundry at Princeton.
(11/10/17 2:42am)
I affectionately joke that the small community living in my Wilson basement is a nudist colony. Despite our limited interaction as nearly strangers, my dorm neighbors and I have a healthy sense of platonic camaraderie when it comes to accepting the unintended consequences of living with members of the opposite sex in tight quarters. If we accidentally bump into one another wrapped in towels having just left the shower, or see one of our ranks sleepwalking in their pajamas or folding laundry in the hallway wearing nothing but boxer shorts, we still manage a neighborly “hello” sans prudish judgement.
(10/11/17 1:53am)
It’s Friday, and a Princeton freshman is preparing to brave Charter. It’s cold, but the basement will feel like a sauna. She doesn’t see herself doing laundry any time soon, so she doesn’t want to wear something she isn’t comfortable letting soak in sweat and other liquids for the foreseeable future. She decides on boyfriend jeans, an oversized tee shirt, and Converse.
(09/21/17 12:56am)
The Harvard administration set off a firestorm when it rejected a formerly incarcerated woman who had already been recommended by the Department of History. Numerous media outlets have covered the case of Michelle Jones, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in history at New York University. While incarcerated, she completed an undergraduate degree and then became a published scholar in American studies with her paper “Magdalene Laundries: The First Prisons for Women in the United States.” She also wrote a play to be performed in a theater in Indianapolis.
(08/09/17 2:19am)
*This piece provides satirical advice for moving to Princeton.
(05/15/17 1:02am)
As of writing this, two weeks from now I’ll be sitting on a beach somewhere. Three weeks from now, I’ll be enjoying my last Reunions as a student. And four weeks from now, I’ll probably be at home, waking up and wondering if this was all a dream.
(05/03/17 11:49pm)
For this spring’s Lawnparties, Charter Club will bring the talented Maryland-based trio Prinze George. Consisting of members Kenny Grimm (production/instrumental), Naomi Almquist (vocals), and Isabelle De Leon (drums), Prinze George specializes in chill ’80s-inspired beats that are sure to keep you moving all day.
(04/06/17 2:18am)
You always remember your first. Forbes Sunday brunch, that is. I had heard all the stories, from the infamous chocolate fountain and its ability to inspire love and spark excitement in even the most jaded of upperclassmen, to the long lines (for omelets) that were second only to those of the DMV.
(12/09/16 3:39am)
Buzzfeed ran a story a few weeks ago about a bar in London that has a ball pit in the basement. Adult coloring books top the Amazon best-sellers list, and there are camps for adults in Brooklyn. Last semester, Princeton University’s Mathey College held puppy study breaks to help students de-stress. It’s clear that the millennial generation does not want to grow up.
(12/05/16 4:30pm)
1. Try out every single Snapchat filter.
(10/06/16 6:21pm)
Trash bags are awaiting collection outside rather than in dumpsters, starting this academic year. The dumpsters were removed to improve the aesthetics and walkability of campus, according to University sources.
(04/10/16 6:28pm)
*This piece is satirical.
(02/01/16 7:36pm)
Last month, the big news in the education world was a report on the future of college admissions, with the aim of turning college stress into meaningful educational experience. If you missed the news, it’s probably because, ironically, you were too stressed over finals. But this report, "Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions," has ambitions to change that. Already, a group of schools calling themselves the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success (including the Ivies and more than 80 others) plan on replacing the now-standard Common Application with a new, more holistic application.
(01/07/16 2:50pm)
Last week, the New York Jets fell to the Buffalo Bills under excessively strong winds, believed to be generated by fans stolen from the University by former Jets head coach, Rex Ryan.
(10/21/15 9:48pm)
Wanshou Lu is a street filled with the elderly. Located in Beijing, a city that is the embodiment of rapid modernization, the street retains aspects of a relaxed lifestyle, with grandparents walking leisurely along the storefronts as they barter for fruits and vegetables in the morning.
(10/20/15 6:15pm)
I’m interested in perverse incentives, those peculiar “M. Night Shyamalan plot twists” of policy-making in which motivational rewards actually cause unintended adverse effects. Take for example, the punishment system of Bangkok police for minor infractions like coming to work late or littering. They first tried to force minor rule breakers to wear tartan armbands. However, it only promoted pride instead of shame. Before the government realized what was going on, officers began actively collecting these armbands as souvenirs. In response, the punishment was updated to be a bit more emasculating — Hello Kitty armbands — blindingly pink and sufficiently humiliating. Fun fact.