That single line of blue and grey text on my Facebook profile has been bothering me of late. It sits just below the unaccountably past-tense ?Studied at Princeton University? and my ?work information? describing a seemingly ancient summer internship.
What was the most surprising/awesome/not awesome/unexpected etc. thing about Princeton this year? Bennett McIntosh: Irina Spalko, the villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, dies in one of the most CGI-heavy instances of “careful what you wish for” in film history.
In an especially dark section of a letter to his younger brother Zooey, J.D. Salinger?s Buddy Glass writes, ?I can?t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.? This sentiment is one I have come to understand in my final days at Princeton.
Majority: Last year, the University announced a new policy regarding Greek letter organizations on Princeton?s campus, forbidding freshmen to take part in any activity sanctioned through these organizations.
Similar to Lea Trusty, as she mentioned in her recent column ?I Miss Eye Contact,? I hail from a very small town.
I?ve always been an introvert, so big crowds of people, like those at Lawnparties this past weekend, are usually my worst nightmare.
Last month, high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss spurred national controversy when she penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled ?To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me.? Criticizing universities? emphasis on diversity, she mockingly wrote, ?Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it? and ?Sen.
Princeton is an institution that prides itself on tradition, but not all tradition is good. For years, Princeton has been plagued by issues relating to race and equality.
Regarding ?Philanthropist Kathryn Davis dies at 106? (Thursday, May 2, 2013)A note came to us from the Davis family that Ms. Kathryn W.
In a ?Dear Colleague" letter of April 4, 2011, a directive released by the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S.
Especially now that finals are coming up in just a few weeks, I certainly feel the stress has multiplied.
Due to the intense popularity of its introductory computer science courses, including COS 126: General Computer Science, COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems and COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures, the Department of Computer Science has recently decided to remove the pass/D/fail option.
Over the span of this semester, I have met with over a dozen students of various backgrounds in order to gauge student interest in increased racial and cultural dialogue on campus.
The fluorescent lights of Woolworth 104 did their best to keep me and my peers awake and participating in our Writing Seminar on a stormy Wednesday night.
?We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre?s castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return at evening.
When I first came to Princeton, my mother showered me with the routine barrage of advice, ranging from remembering to get a decent amount of sleep to cleaning my room before I had a precept of dust bunnies under my desk.
Regarding ?History and English remain largest humanities departments, foreign languages the smallest? (Thursday, April 25, 2013)The members of the classics department were surprised by the article on the choices of the 269 members of the Class of 2015 who declared concentrations in the humanities.
This year?s Princeton Preview was strange for me, and not just because the second one wasn?t actually a weekend.
