Letter to the Editor: October 14, 2010
This recent editorial contained inaccurate information that serves to create misperceptions among students about the resources and services available to them through Career Services.
This recent editorial contained inaccurate information that serves to create misperceptions among students about the resources and services available to them through Career Services.
One may argue that the responsibility for such duties solely lies with the student. However, for individuals who have never lived in the United States, such matters are difficult to navigate.
Sure, we’d like to think that none of us would subject another human being to this kind of treatment. And for the most part we’d be right. But the psychology behind this is something we learned about in third grade: Bullies need audiences.
The University administration and the USG should lobby organizations like LSAC to bring their tests to Princeton and should consider offering incentives for them to do so.
Upperclassmen would feel most connected to their college if they had a single loyalty to it, not a new affiliation in junior year.
There is a difference between making remarks that are anti-Muslim and making remarks that are anti-Islam.
What is opportunity, and since there is so much of it here, do I just need to breathe in deeply to get my fill?
Although receiving a Princeton A.B. requires mastery of valuable skills like critical thinking, the degree is not vocational in nature. Despite the fact that Princeton students are graduating with the invaluable skills of an excellent liberal arts education, the majority of students will only have taken a few classes that will help them survive in the real world outside of their careers. Offering a broad selection of more universally relevant courses would allow students to fulfill distribution requirements while also receiving a deeper breadth of knowledge and perspective that could assist them in everyday life.
This year, as in years past, the offerings presented to students have been disproportionately oriented toward just two industries: consulting and finance. While the Office of Career Services does make an effort to provide Princeton students with information about other options for their futures, Career Services should devote more energy to expanding the breadth of opportunities available to graduating seniors.
Any scholarship over $4,500 for any given year is worthless, for all the scholarship does is cancel out any money offered by Princeton, unless it exceeds the school’s financial aid offer.
I went down last week to McCosh Hall with some friends from my church to hear professors Robert George and Cornel West GS ’80 discuss what it means to be a Christian in today’s world.
There is one particular industry facing ramped-up government regulation that is relevant to Princeton students: the for-profit college industry.
By ensuring that all future theses are digitized and that past prize-winning theses are made available online, the University can enable students to quickly and easily gain access to a valuable research tool.