I can pinpoint the exact moment when I understood just how different college was going to be. On OA I discovered, quite abruptly and without warning, that I was allergic to bee stings.
Fifty-six days into the school year, Dining Services has finally relented: The Gallery, which has been closing at 10 p.m.
Before you read this column, take a minute to answer the following two questions: Do you think you are more or less comfortable with Princetonian alcohol habits than the average Princetonian?
The first thing you should know about me is that I tend to sweat when I sleep. I sweat like I was leading an expedition through an uncharted Amazonian rain forest and forgot to pack short sleeves.
My memories of growing up with Curtis, the middle of my three older sisters, include her fondness for pinching me, her bad driving skills and her tendency to steal the remote control from me in the ninth inning of a baseball game so she could watch "ER." I may be the biggest and strongest of my siblings now, but Curtis is nine years older, so I was at her mercy for most of my childhood.
The first thing you should know about me is that I tend to sweat when I sleep. I sweat like I was leading an expedition through an uncharted Amazonian rain forest and forgot to pack short sleeves.
My memories of growing up with Curtis, the middle of my three older sisters, include her fondness for pinching me, her bad driving skills and her tendency to steal the remote control from me in the ninth inning of a baseball game so she could watch "ER." I may be the biggest and strongest of my siblings now, but Curtis is nine years older, so I was at her mercy for most of my childhood.
I almost got robbed this week."Dammit ... you got 75 cents I could borrow?"A tall black man shuffled towards me, draped in a white bed sheet.
I almost got robbed this week."Dammit ... you got 75 cents I could borrow?"A tall black man shuffled towards me, draped in a white bed sheet.
On Oct. 31, President Bush nominated Woodrow Wilson School alumnus Samuel Alito, Jr. '72 to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
On Oct. 31, President Bush nominated Woodrow Wilson School alumnus Samuel Alito, Jr. '72 to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Many years ago I saw on TV (perhaps on "Candid Camera") a hilarious practical joke played on an appliance salesman.
For the Red Sox, the White Sox and now Princeton's heavy-hitters in the law, the curse has finally been broken.
When I wrote my first column a year ago, I explored one of those unsettled issues that keeps coming back to haunt American politics: Vietnam.
In 1930, Spanish thinker Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote: "To wonder is to begin to understand. This is the luxury special to the intellectual man." Ortega y Gasset penned these words as a caution against the approach of mass politics and as an exhortation to the intelligentsia to use their lives of luxury for positive social purposes.
In 1930, Spanish thinker Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote: "To wonder is to begin to understand. This is the luxury special to the intellectual man." Ortega y Gasset penned these words as a caution against the approach of mass politics and as an exhortation to the intelligentsia to use their lives of luxury for positive social purposes.
