Fortunately, reading doesn’t have to fade, even if bookstores do. But unlike the idea of selling paper-and-ink books online, the e-reader will fundamentally change how books look. I suspect the e-reader phenomenon is the tip of an iceberg of innovation yet to come. The digital book will probably be the latest stage in a journey from scrolls and diligent Middle Age monks to paper and movable type. With each innovation, reading has become more affordable.
While Princeton certainly grants you the ability to be wealthy, powerful and influential, it can also rob you of the ability not to be.
The generosity and compassion for the people in Haiti was truly awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, the flooding in Pakistan has received nowhere near this level of concern.
Charter’s new sign-in system is a reasonable and creative response to the surge in demand that it has experienced in recent years. In the event that other sign-in clubs reach full capacity, they would be wise to consider following Charter’s approach.
In his nine months in office, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has shown himself to be a shrewd and effective dealmaker and a real alternative to the populist, uncompromising Tea Party movement.
Most of us have been looking through the registrar?s course offerings this past week ? either as freshmen picking classes or as upperclassmen looking for courses to switch into.
We are in a four-year no-man’s land, during which consequences are at a minimum as long as we don’t get caught.
On the farm where I stayed in Honduras, there were not even telephones or electricity. I don’t know how my hosts would have reacted if I had mentioned that 1,900 miles away, men in boat shoes abounded with their noses buried in pocket-sized devices that could send and receive text messages, e-mails and phone calls.
Given that Princeton students make their dorm rooms their home while they are on campus, students should be able to more easily customize their living space.
Sometimes a good anecdote — a critical analysis of a narrative — can reveal information that quantitative data cannot.
More deeply than simply asking what classes one should take, one ought to ask oneself: What kind of intellectual model do I want for my four years of intellectual training here? What kind of tools do I want to give myself to educate myself after Princeton?
A name gives a sense of what a place looks like, but it can never paint a true picture of the friends and family who make a place home. Even though I count Windsor as my hometown, the longer I stay at Princeton, the more Princeton’s community usurps that “home” feeling.
Let me be the first to acknowledge that I have no special qualifications for dispensing advice. My only source of credibility is that I tried a healthy dose of new things at Princeton; I endured a more-than-incidental number of failures; and, at final tally, I wouldn’t trade the triumphs or the setbacks. Simply put: If I had to do it all over again, I’d do it all over again. So without further ado, to the Class of 2014 and to classes beyond, here’s one recent alumnus’s recipe for navigating Old Nassau.
Unless you are willing to drag your bike to Dodge-Osborn in Wilson (the only dorm building that has a bike rack protected from the elements) whenever inclement weather occurs, you pretty much have no choice but to leave your bike outside, leaving it to be rained, snowed or sleeted upon. In late October, less than two months after we return to campus, bikes are already showing signs of wear and tear from being exposed to rain.