While here, you can meet and interact with some of the greatest minds in academia. Politics professor Robert George and African American studies professor Cornel West GS ’80 once co-taught a freshman seminar on great books that culminated in a jam session, and several famous authors on the faculty regularly give guest lectures for ENG 133: Princeton University Reads. If economics interests you more than the humanities, you can take a course with Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman, who floats his ideas in class before publishing them in The New York Times. Or you can take ECO 200: Advanced Principles of Economics, in which John Nash once gave a guest lecture on the work for which he was awarded his own Nobel Prize. There are also many opportunities to meet professors outside of class: Residential colleges and eating clubs provide roundtable discussions with professors, or you can invite professors to dinner yourself.
College isn’t just about academics, though, so we would be remiss not to tell you about other fun things to do here. If you’re interested in art and culture, the University Art Museum has an art exhibit with wine and cheese one Thursday night per month. Residential colleges also provide highly subsidized tickets and transportation to Broadway shows and sporting events. If you’d rather get your heart racing, there is an annual dodgeball tournament, which brings groups across campus together to compete for cash and glory. And of course we can’t forget Lawnparties, a biannual event in which eating clubs and the USG bring famous musicians to the Street. To wind down after all the fun, you can always stop by Murray-Dodge Cafe and pick up free tea and freshly baked cookies every night from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m..
As much fun as it is to be an undergraduate, the Princeton experience doesn’t end when you walk out of FitzRandolph Gate. Our alumni are intensely loyal, with thousands returning to campus for Reunions every year to reconnect with friends and reminisce about their time at Princeton. This enthusiasm for Princeton is also reflected in our alumni giving rate, which is one of the highest in the country.
We hope you enjoy your weekend here at Princeton, and we hope our insight has been helpful. There are many other aspects of Princeton we wish we could have told you about, and we hope you come back in the fall and experience them for yourself.
Read More
Why can’t lecturers win the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching?
Jerry ZhuLet’s acknowledge those who make “boutique teaching” possible, those who work tirelessly to make our rigorous curricula more accessible, and those who dedicate their time to advising and guiding us through all the challenges we face at this University. Lecturers should be eligible for the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching.
Let’s acknowledge those who make “boutique teaching” possible, those who work tirelessly to make our rigorous curricula more accessible, and those who dedicate their time to advising and guiding us through all the challenges we face at this University. Lecturers should be eligible for the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching.
Princeton’s administration of justice is Trumpian
Frances BroganThe disparity between the University’s approach to Giberson and its approach to pro-Palestinian protestors reflects a concerning trend of appeasing an increasingly emboldened right rather than resisting the threat it poses to academic freedom and the wellbeing of Princeton students.
Secular Opening Exercises? Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water
Frank StrasburgerThe secular makes no room for the spiritual. What Opening Exercises are meant to convey is the spirit of the institution so that it may be kept alive from generation to generation.
The secular makes no room for the spiritual. What Opening Exercises are meant to convey is the spirit of the institution so that it may be kept alive from generation to generation.
