So we were talking the other day about Princeton architecture ? or at least I was. Some of you won't be surprised.
Senior year feels like a room that's two degrees too warm or a note that's a third of a step flat.
Whenever I bump into someone on campus who knew me as an undergraduate, the greeting I receive is often a quizzically bemused (or even mildly scandalized): "What are you still doing here?
Why do so many Princeton students go into financial services?This question is asked with a measure of perplexity and disgust every year.
Over the last few days, many of you may have noticed certain students hunting down signatures in Frist and across campus.
Column fails to properly defend the 'chicken hawks'Regarding 'Patriot shell games' (Thursday, Sept.
This past weekend, you may have noticed slightly more people of color wandering the campus, sipping cocktails behind Frist Campus Center and clogging the halls of McCosh ? all decked out in orange and black and sporting natty nametags.
My freshman year was a mess. Fresh off the boat, so to speak, I found myself treated differently by classmates and cashiers alike.
Maybe you have met one. There are very few. They are the ones who hesitate when they are asked if they are class of 2009 or 2008.
For most Princeton students, fall break is a chance to relax after midterm exams. Some of us will use the time to travel or do thesis research, and others will gloat to friends at Yale or Harvard about our extra free time.
The future, as it turns out, is a lot like the present but with slightly better robots. If the crowd gathered at the Javits Center this weekend for Wired Magazine's "NextFest" futurist convention was any indication, the future is also much, much nerdier.As if to say "get ready for boredom," NextFest planners placed a "kitchen of the future" exhibit at the front of the hall.
This summer, while the rest of you held internships, ran political campaigns and generally furthered your lives, I spent my fourth summer in a row working as a lifeguard in the great state of Georgia.
Audience has right to express disapprovalRegarding 'Promote a safe culture' (Tuesday, Sept.
I gave up eating meat 16 months ago. At the time it was an easy choice. I was living in Rishikesh, India, a religious town on the banks of the Ganges in the foothills of the Himalayas that is a magnet for millions of Hindu pilgrims and one of the few places on earth where you can be arrested for eating a hamburger.My initial anxiety about adopting a meatless diet quickly gave way to gratefulness for the opportunity to live out a set of values that I had held for some time but never had the courage to substantiate.
