You have been working for days on end, just trying to get all your work done on time. Then one morning you gaze into the mirror after an all-nighter and see a hirsute Johnny Damon staring back instead of the familiar face, and that is when it hits you.
As 10:30 p.m. drew closer the members of The Shore paced around the Charter Club nervously, wondering where the crowd was.
Last Thursday I sat in my room with a pen and a spiral notebook, writing whatever came to mind in an effort to arrive at a possible topic for this piece.
"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein once told Ernest Hemingway, and the label stuck.
Grappling against the wall, I hang there with one arm clutching to a hold, trying to force myself upwards.
Poetry is written alone, behind closed doors and under bad lighting. Editing poetry is therefore a difficult task, often acrimonious, as editor and poet spar over publishability and artistic intent.
It's their opportunity to be dorky. It's their opportunity to exploit their eccentricities and idiosyncrasies for the purpose of entertainment.
You are standing in the middle of a large room in Boston with thick drapes, leather armchairs and a small clock that chimes every 30 minutes.
When students say they're going to that ambiguous place called "the city," they mean New York; sadly forgetting that other city, Philadelphia, which rests an equal distance from Princeton and should therefore have equal claim on our weekend itineraries.
"Sex on Broadway," the Princeton University Players' Freshman Revue, premieres tonight in the Forbes Theater."The theme has been 'Sex on Broadway' every year, but each class has come up with a different take on it," said Jessica Bonney '05, the Princeton University Players' President.
It's a well-known fact that Princeton boasts an impressive faculty roster, but most students never stop to think of their professors' extracurricular lives.
Ultra-realism, especially of the slow-moving variety, is not terribly trendy in modern American film.
We are a media-obsessed nation. We read "Star Tracks" in People Magazine, watch E! Entertainment Television, scan the tabloids, catch up with Regis and Kelly, and we won't deny it.
When freshman Charlotte Simmons' pickup truck arrives from Sparta, North Carolina, bringing her and her few possessions to prestigious Dupont University, Dupont smells of "fresh meat." Like hordes of Orcs arrayed against the white tower of Minas Tirith, the forces of lust, envy and corruption gather against this small-town valedictorian with a body the other girls would kill to have ? and so would the males, we soon discover.
"When I said I wanted to do Sarah Kane, no one in the department had heard of her." Joe Cermatori '05 is directing "4.48 Psychosis" the final work by the British playwright Sarah Kane who committed suicide shortly after completing the play.
Spongebob is a force to be reckoned with. I'm willing to admit it now. After years of hating on the little dude for encroaching on the turf of my dear friend Rocko; after years of ripping him for looking like a drunk-eyed block of cheese; after years of disbelief at the mocking audacity of this decade's crop of children; only now will I give in.
You've seen them. Outside the architecture building at 3 a.m. on a Saturday, their gazes landing on you briefly as you head back from Prospect or Frist.
By the turn of the millennium, the once thriving flow of Britpop to the world music stage had become more or less defunct.
Most art teachers tell their students to color within the lines? Professor Denyse Thomasos, the newest addition to the Program in Visual Arts, tells students to forget traditional boundaries and, if it suits them, the canvas all together.For the spring semester, Thomasos will head VIS 451: Installation Art, a new onetime only studio course that challenges students to use their preferred medium (photography, painting, sculpture, etc.) to define a physical space."I really want students to think about architecture and transforming space and to think about this in relationship with the concepts they want to communicate," said Thomasos, a Yale and Toronto University graduate.Installation art, she explained, breaks down the barrier between art and its physical environment by literally installing art into architecture and essentially turning space into a value.It is a form that Thomasos, an internationally acclaimed abstract artist and professor at Rutgers University, has herself experimented with in the last five years.Most of her work draws deeply from her Trinidad heritage, "the aesthetics of art in Africa and the black experience."Since her pieces are largely concept driven, Thomasos finds installation art liberating because it provides an added dimension for expression."The psychology of many of my ideas, especially the idea of imprisonment, are better realized with the actual architecture," Thomasos said.
A dorm is the college student's home away from home. Adorned with some of his or her favorite things, the room can be seen as an extension of the student's soul.
