The physical and time constraints of college force us to make use of tools like Hulu, but we lose out on some of the fun of popular culture.
Welcome to the Orange Bubble, prefrosh. If all is going as expected, the Princeton Weather Machine is providing you with a few nice days of sunshine and the administration is wooing you with tours and brochures. The administration can’t tell you everything, though, so the Editorial Board would like to let you in on some lesser-known aspects of the Princeton experience.
Medical professionals have for the most part moved away from using “mental retardation” as a medical term because the term was never accurate. That term does not acknowledge the fact that some afflicted people simply think differently and may have savant abilities unattainable by the average person.
Rivka Cohen '12 criticizes the labeling of Israel as an apartheid state and Gary Fox '13 defends Princeton's dining options.
Nov. 13, 9:30 a.m. I rolled out of bed and began my daily 30-minutes-before-first-lecture routine. Seventeen minutes later, I found myself with three minutes for my pre-lecture check-down: laptop in backpack, watch on left wrist, wallet in left pocket, phone in right pocket. I saw my headphones on my desk but set them aside. I was ready.
Google Apps has the potential to effect concrete improvements in the lives of Princeton students.
We don’t need to get everyone to major in math, but we do stand to gain from giving everyone a better appreciation of math.
Princeton’s progress would be hollow if we moved abruptly and without careful respect for the University’s history.
The ability to consider competing moral reasons for action or inaction is a unique aspect of our humanity, and therefore so is the torment that accompanies particularly difficult decisions and the regret that follows deciding wrongly.
Today we are involved in a project to expand the School of Engineering and Applied Science and create the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The Andlinger Center will be the locus for solving problems of energy and the environment.
It’s a commonly accepted truism that college dining hall food isn’t that great. The real problem is with the one word that precedes “meal plan” for freshmen and sophomores here. That word is “mandatory.”
Regarding “Should the Wilson School certificate program be selective?” (Monday, March 1, 2010)
Returning mid-semester assignments before reading period and providing greater access to feedback on final exams and papers will provide students with a better understanding of how to improve on future assignments, and the University should incorporate both of these requirements into its academic regulations.
Am I Joshua, Professor Katz or JTK? How do you know which name to use? And how, for that matter, do I know myself?
An internationalized Princeton won’t look like your daddy’s Princeton.
As I approach my senior year, I am beginning to realize that in the real world, I will not be an athlete, salesperson, programmer, dentist, beekeeper or many of the other jobs in the song. As I suddenly realize that I can’t start my sentences about my future career path with “When I grow up” anymore, the words of the song become a lot more challenging.
