The other day in the dining hall, I overheard a group of students exchanging academic horror stories much like old soldiers sharing their battle wounds.“Four all-nighters in two weeks!
The Office of the Registrar’s add/drop deadline marks the time when students begin to reflect on their course load, thinking about what courses they should take in the future, and what they would have done differently if they could return to the first few weeks of September and re-enroll in classes.
Nobody is going to argue that Ivy League schools aren’t exclusive. We all feel a sense of pride being here, precisely because it’s such a challenge to get to this point.
If I could sit my freshman self down at the dawn of my Princeton career, I’d have quite a few things to say.
Taking the rush hour train across Midtown always seemed to show me the best of the city. The indescribable odors.
I am a feminist, so the first words I spoke at a recent town hall meeting on the new sexual assault procedures were in praise of the University’s speedy response to the new Title IX regulations.
Coming into Princeton, I knew I wanted to get involved with community service. At the Activities Fair, I spent most of my time under the Pace Center for Civic Engagement tent.
The week we, the freshman class, marched through FitzRandolph Gate, we were bombarded with activities that initiated the four-year-long journey that will be our Princeton careers.
’Tis the season to be rejected. The acceptance emails and rowdy pickups have maxed out now as student organizations across campus take their pick of the deliciously talented cornucopia of applicants.
You would think the author of an essay titled “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League” would get a chilly reception in a room of Princeton students.
As the University faces an investigation for possible violations of federal law under Title IX, it has directed some of its attention to the role of residential college advisers in new policy changes.
The University likes to say that it cares about its students’ welfare and concerns.
I found out what a precept was the day before classes were supposed to begin my freshman year. It was during a meeting with my academic adviser, finalizing courses, that the word first went into my ear.
Were you to stroll into Whig Hall last Thursday afternoon, you would have found a bevy of Princeton students debating with a former Yale professor.
Two weeks ago the University’s Office of Career Services organized the first-ever HireTigers Meetup, a development of the previous career fair recruitment model.
In a recent opinion post in The New York Times, Anna Altman continues a recent trend, though certainly not a new phenomenon, of decrying tourists and tourism in general.
