It takes enormous strength of character to convince yourself that living off adrenaline is not noble. There’s no Princeton award designated for those who lead the most balanced life. You have to be so sure of what’s best for you that when someone asks you to take on another project, you simply say, “I don’t want to do that.”
Free speech is a legal and political right, not a tool for arbitrating “proper” forms of interpersonal discourse. Freedom of speech includes,among other things, the right to use offensive phrases to convey political messages, to engage in symbolic speech (e.g. burning the flag in protest), or to not speak (e.g. to not salute the flag).
Princeton’s new gender-inclusive housing policy is beneficial to all Princeton students, not just to those who “expressly need” it.
The minimalist composer John Cage had a catchphrase: I have nothing to say and I’m saying it. That’s me. I text my friends all the time, especially when I have nothing to say. I do this because I hate being alone. I stay for hours when I eat dinner at Terrace, not so much to procrastinate working as to procrastinate leaving a social space for a carrel in Firestone that I find to be way too quiet.
