So, to those who say that college is an opportunity to become engaged with important issues, to those who point out all the problems of the world, I can only say: Yes, to be sure. But we’re also like 20. We don’t know what the important issues are.
If Oxford, on a much more limited budget, can offer students an hour or two of two-on-one or three-on-one teaching a week with a senior academic, in addition to a full lecture course, and all Princeton’s resources only let you have a 15-on-one precept, something’s drastically wrong.
For me, midterms have been a trial by fire, not merely in terms of my academic standing, but regarding the course choices I have made. The truth is that all my frustration this week hasn’t been the work itself, but what I’ve been working on.
I’d like to offer up a few uniquely Princetonian costume ideas. Hopefully this list will save some people the embarrassment that I faced.
If the University should prepare us for married life, why not prepare us for all manner of other things as well — like having children?
Climate change is the most important issue we face today.
University events with alcohol should be opened to all, not just those over 21.
Princeton can’t stop divorce or teach marriage — but it can teach us how to file a joint tax return.
Policy on precept size is not based on financial considerations; In defense of Peter Singer; Admissions should be merit-based, and should disregard other factors; Religion was an important part of graduate student experience
If you are attractive, spot the hardest-working and loneliest looking kid in the class and charm him or her. The Curve says, “Use others!” If you aren’t attractive, don’t worry. It’s good for you. Suck it up, lock yourself in the room, and study, says the Curve.
No matter how new and snazzy and modern a building looks, it will always get old. You can even find this in Lewis: Though it’s been open for little more than a year, it is already starting to decay.
Earlier this month, the administration announced a gender-neutral housing (GNH) pilot program to explore the possibility of allowing students to live with roommates of the opposite sex.
If you listen to the presidents of the great American private universities, follow their policy decisions and their big investment plans (now mostly on hold, but they’ll be back), Stanford — the Farm — looks like the model that the others are trying to emulate.
The sense of drift and lack of purpose that I had experienced over the past year is probably the worst part of my graduate school experience.
Columnists Molly Alarcon, Charlie Metzger and Peter Zakin discuss young graduate alumni trustees, library and RCA cuts, and atheism at Princeton.
The Board of Trustees should create two seats to be filled by young graduate student alumni.
