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The Daily Princetonian

The few, the proud, the artsy?

For my whole life, I thought I was going to go to college and become a hippie. I was going to have dreads and a nose piercing and walk around barefoot in a long rainbow skirt, writing my poetry in sun-soaked rooms. Instead, I came to Princeton. I?m not complaining.

OPINION | 03/27/2013

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Preserving Princeton

News of the Newtown tragedy united America in grief. My mother was in a state of disarray for days; our commander-in-chief broke down in front of the nation, not so much as a president, but as a father.

OPINION | 03/26/2013

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Doing things to do them

About a month ago, I opened an email asking me, ?What would you do with ten thousand dollars?? It wasn?t spam from Groupon or some Nigeria prince asking for a ticket to the states; it was our University Student Government telling me I could win ten thousand dollars if I went to a basketball game dressed up with school spirit and got picked to take a half court shot and made it.

OPINION | 03/25/2013

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Read charitably

In most classes at Princeton, students are instructed to read texts critically. We?re asked to do more than just absorb information; we must engage arguments and their implications seriously.

OPINION | 03/24/2013

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The Princeton scholar

?I love learning. I love learning. I love learning.? This was my friend?s mantra as she looked at her calendar, highlighted with a hectic schedule of endless lectures, precepts, seminars and office hours ? each with its own ensuing work.

OPINION | 03/14/2013