Rejection is common at Princeton – and that’s a good thing
At Princeton, we don’t only learn in the classroom, we also learn life skills — like how to deal with rejection. And that’s just as important as anything we learn in our courses.
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At Princeton, we don’t only learn in the classroom, we also learn life skills — like how to deal with rejection. And that’s just as important as anything we learn in our courses.
Let’s be honest, Princeton students are stressed about their grades. And there’s an easy fix that could help alleviate this stress: Princeton should extend the current three-week-long window to elect the pass/D/fail (PDF) option to allow students to PDF a class at any point in the semester. This change would help to reduce grading and GPA pressure, as well as relieve some student stress.
Spring of 2022 was a semester of loosening restrictions: The University-wide mask mandate was lifted and classes were held in person. As the semester kicked off, students “signed a petition requesting remote options for teaching and learning throughout the full spring semester.”
As I was wrapping up my internship experience in July, I began looking into opportunities for the next summer. I thought I had begun the recruitment process quite early, but I soon realized that this was far from the case. In part, this is due to the lack of clear communication from the University, as it underemphasizes the importance of getting started early when it comes to recruiting. As a result, underclass students — particularly those without pre-existing connections and a wealth of resources — are left in the dark until it’s too late.
Toward the end of the semester, the annual fight among Princeton undergraduates came to a close. Thousands of underclassmen and juniors participated, and as with any fight, the winners walked away with it all while the losers fled the scene with woe. This fight, which took place on MyHousing and had students battling to claim rooms that they will call home for the 2022-2023 school year, is one that we are all too familiar with: room draw.
On Dec. 16, the University announced that it would mandate booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In its annoucement, the University cited data “indicat[ing] that COVID-19 boosters bolster protection against infection and severe disease.” It further said that starting on Jan. 31, all University affiliates had to be boosted, otherwise they could lose “prox access to campus facilities” and progression towards their degree.
If you have never locked yourself out of your dorm during your Princeton career, congratulations: you have been very on top of things. For those of us who have, we can all agree that making the hike to New South under all sorts of crazy weather conditions or, if the Service Point is closed, waiting for Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers to unlock your door while you stand outside it wrapped in a towel after showering is not a great experience.
Going to office hours was such a simple thing during the online school year.
Back in April of last year, people watched from their windows and envied the freedom enjoyed by the raccoons, bears, and moose that roamed in the streets, claiming them as their territory. Countless stories of animals ending up where they’re not supposed to be — from sea lions sitting outside hotels on San Cristóbal Island, to goats jaywalking the streets of Llandudno, Wales — made news all over the world. However, compared to this small degree of freedom — if we may call it so — gained by these creatures, the suffering that many animals experience has only become more severe due to the pandemic.
“I’d be very happy if everybody ate four pounds of sugar a year. They eat a hundred pounds!” exclaimed Doctor John Yudkin around the mid-20th century. But for an average American in the 21st century, that amount has spiked to a staggering 152 pounds per year. In the 2019-20 season alone, 171.5 million metric tons of sugar were consumed worldwide — that’s 30 times as heavy as The Great Pyramid of Giza.
“Heads up bro, we got problems,” said Leon in the 2001 “Fast and Furious” movie. And yes, we got problems — we are downright getting dumber. To no surprise, our attention spans are decreasing, too. A goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds. The average human attention span? Eight, down from 12 in 2000. By reading this far into the article, you are doing better than both a goldfish and an average human. And the antagonist that single-handedly caused this? The surge in technology and social media that brought about the whirlwind of fast and furious everything. As a consequence, the generational trend is that people are becoming more restless and outcome-oriented.
For much of the past year, COVID-19 has taken all our attention, wresting focus away from urgent environmental problems — even those that the pandemic has exacerbated. Central among them is the overconsumption of single-use plastics.
TikTok, a popular video-sharing app, was due to disappear from Apple and Android App stores last Sunday, Sept. 27, under President Donald Trump’s executive order. Just hours before midnight, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols temporarily blocked the ban.