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(04/05/18 2:35am)
Before you come at me with accusations of reverse sexism, hear me out. It’s not usually women who express the sentiment that men are always wrong. Rather, this sentiment is loudly and ironically proclaimed by men during arguments in which they feel criticized. When men proclaim that they are always wrong, it is not a tacit acceptance of defeat but rather a joke at the expense of women. After all, women are irrational creatures who will always think than men are in the wrong.
(03/06/18 9:42pm)
Go to U-Store. Online or in person, doesn’t matter. Buy a Princeton University shirt or hoodie. Make sure that the big, orange letters of “Princeton” are emblazoned across the front. Wear the gear to the airport. Enjoy not getting stopped by the metal detector that always mysteriously beeps when you get close to it.
(02/19/18 1:05am)
At one point in time, I wanted to be scientist. I was eight and I really, truly knew what I wanted from life. But to my recollection, that was the last time I was truly sure about anything.
(09/25/17 2:21am)
When I first got to Chengdu, China, ready to begin a summer internship where I was meant “learn about a new culture” and “gain perspective,” it became obvious to me how arrogant I had been. I’d shown up to a country that I had very little prior knowledge of, where I knew no one, and where I couldn’t speak a word of the language.
(05/12/17 2:14am)
If you’ve heard our president speak, you’ve heard about the dangerous, all-consuming “liberal media.” The “lying media.” The “fake news.” According to Trump and his advisers, the media seems to persecute any idea or person that does not follow its “liberal ideology.”
(05/08/17 12:49am)
The following article clarifies and elaborates on certain points I made in an article I recently wrote and responds to some of the criticism it has received.
(05/03/17 12:26am)
There is an emerging belief that people who hold conservative views are being persecuted in a way akin to how oppressed groups have historically been. Complaints include an inability to voice opinions without being censored, discrimination based on conservative beliefs, and a fear of being labelled as ignorant.
(03/29/17 1:21am)
We all follow implicit rules that dictate when and how to touch other people. It’s something we rarely talk about, and even the phrase “touch people” is something of a perversion or a corny spiritual platitude.
(03/09/17 2:16am)
During Bicker I was asked a question that, like most Bicker questions, was banal: What do you look for in a friend?
(02/20/17 4:34am)
Editor's Note: This column discusses issues and events that might be traumatizing, or triggering, for some, namely sexual assault and rape.
(12/01/16 1:39am)
How do men get off? I have no doubt that even those of us who are less sexually experienced can answer this question just fine. Friction, socks, lotion, or something of that nature. Furthermore, we all have something of an idea of what male genitalia is supposed to look like from the condom demo our woefully embarrassed health teachers gave us before prom.
(11/29/16 1:48am)
A lot of us are lulled into such a sense of security that it seems implausible that Roe v. Wade could ever be overturned. Yet, I think we sometimes forget that the court decision that gave women the right to make decisions about their own bodies happened not too long ago; in 1973 in fact, just 43 years ago. Even Griswold v. Connecticut, which prohibited laws from controlling contraception, wasn’t decided until 1965. That means that our own grandmothers, or in some cases, our own mothers, were prohibited from taking the pill in certain states in our beloved America. We must remember that we are not so removed from an America that would dictate the state of our bodies and violate our rights to our own flesh. Even today, the issue of reproductive health keeps getting dragged into our news and, perhaps most dangerously, into our government. The private and the personal elements of the female self keep getting made political.
(10/27/16 6:21pm)
Stupid people are incredibly entertaining. So entertaining, in fact, that The O'Reilly Factor regularly sends out Jesse Watters to discover new kinds of dumb people to feature in a segment called Watters’ World. Sometimes Watters is unable to locate people with an IQ lower than his, but fear not! He manages to make his segment funny anyway, through video-editing, a healthy degree of white, male condescension, or, as a last resort, some very funny racism. After all, he is a self-described “political humorist.”
(10/03/16 6:00pm)
As a freshman, I entered COS 126 with a healthy degree of apprehension. Having been forewarned that I could be called for a disciplinary hearing at any time for inadvertent plagiarism, I took great pains to lock myself into a room and bang out our first programming assignment. I soon realizedthat these were all misconceptions.I didn’t have to figure out the intricacies of randomwalker.java or it’s more vexing version, randomwalkers.java, all by myself. The course came with resources like Piazza, office hours, and best of all, lab teaching assistants who were at Lewis Library every evening helping hapless students debug their code. These undergraduate students who had taken the course in previous semesters regularly host help sessions, which are distinct from the office hours of the graduate student preceptors.Personally, I ended up spending every Thursday or Friday night in Room 121 in Lewis Library because it was usually the only time I had to work on my code. Very quickly, however, I began to realize that not all lab TAs are created equal. Some of these TAs would blow my mind and help save my life, or at least a couple of hours of my life. The vast majority, however, would point to a bug that I wasn’t concerned about, help me fix it, and then float away onto the next person in the endless queue. I would put myself on the queue again and end up fixing my program in the span of time it took to get to my turn.The TAs were a primary resource for me when I didn’t understand something in my code or when I didn’t understand certain syntax. Yet, what I didn’t realize is that the TAs are not supposed to function as tutors. While they are on the job, they are advised not to explain long-winded concepts to lost students with severe gaps in their knowledge. That is not to say that several TAs haven’t drawn a long diagram to help me understand my program. But that is not their primary job.A lab TA is authorized to look at anyone’s code but notto explain the concepts behind thecode to the very people he or she is trying to help. One of my friends who is a lab TA explained the reason behind this:lab TAs are not trained to teach computer science and thereby cannot teach students while working for the computer science department at Princeton.To me, that makes very little sense. Can’t these students, who are at a higher level of understanding in terms of computer programming, help their fellow students on a conceptual level? Maybe the TAs should be trained to tutor, or at least advised to help students in the best way they see fit.Furthermore, the current system places such emphasis on preventing plagiarism that it likely contributes to the policy that prevents TAs from explicitly explaining concepts or actively helping students fix their code, which ultimately serves a counterproductive function. Part of the reason why lab TAs cannot explain concepts along with code is the fear that they will somehow do the work for the student who needs help. However, when a lab TA points out some aspect of the code and takes time to explain it, the student often ends up understanding the concept better than if he or she had simply fiddled around with the code until stumbling upon the right solution.In many other classes at Princeton, doing problem sets with friends is the norm. The culture of computer science, however, seems to revile the collaboration of students in writing code for the same class. That’s why lab TAs are such a great resource. They have just recently gone through the very classes that current students are struggling with, and have a wider scope of understanding when it comes to computer science in general. They can easily help us fix a minor bug in our application programming interface or trace the entirety of a recursive program. Already, many TAs help out in direct manners contrary to the roles they are authorized to perform; given this state of affairs, it might perhaps be better if they were authorized to help in this way to begin with. It would make the Room 121 experience all the more enlightening and give the TAs more leeway to help a fellow student out.Editor's note: this column has been updated October 4, 2016 to clarify some of the author's original points.Bhaamati Borkhetaria is a sophomore from Jersey City, New Jersey. She can be reached at bhaamati@princeton.edu.
(09/19/16 6:43pm)
The pre-frosh of last year are now officially students at Princeton and have been initiated into the Princeton experience: that magical four-year span of time in which you grow as a person and meet the wonderful people who will be your friends for the rest of your life. Along the way, you’re supposed to belong to a billion extracurricular clubs that will forever enrich the fabric of your being. I am no one to contradict this wonderful prophecy —I’m waiting for it to come true for myself. However, I’d like to add a grain of salt to the latter half of it. Equipped with all the wisdom accumulated over a year of being a Princeton student, I would like to address the freshmen directly when I say: extracurricular activities will be only as important in your life at Princeton as you make them.
(04/24/16 6:13pm)
What do modern evangelical Christians and animal cruelty groups have in common? They both pass out a great number of leaflets in hopes of persuading people to adopt a different way of thinking. The former tries to change people’s religious beliefs, while the latter aims to convince people that the existing methods of animal treatment are inhumane and detrimental to society.
(04/10/16 6:06am)
Last year, when the candidates for president were still beginning to line up, a very popular candidate emerged in the North Carolina, Iowa and Minnesota polls. He polled at about 9 percent. I am, of course, talking about Deez Nuts.
(03/28/16 4:31pm)
Do you remember the exact moment when that feeling of being inordinately lucky melted away? Was it a few days after the orange tiger flashed onto your computer screen with an invitation to join the ranks of the elite? Was it when you were walking back from a party at midnight during frosh week with crowds of other students who had received the same invitation? Was it when you pulled your first all-nighter trying to finish your R1? Was it during a training session for a volunteer group you joined simply to build your resume?