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Merging extremes: “Nuevo” East Asia

Merging extremes: “Nuevo” East Asia

Ye Eun Charlotte Chun

If there’s one thing studying in Beijing this summer has taught me, if not the fact that toilet paper is a luxury and that walking with your caged bird is apparently a thing, it’s that Asian Tiger nations have a distinctly unique way of reconciling traditional with modern, the East with the West.

OPINION | 09/18/2013

What we can learn from MOOCs

Lauren Davis

During many mornings this past summer, I wandered into the kitchen to see my father, a retired investment banker, hunched intentlyover his laptop, headphones on and scribbling notes.

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Taking notice

Taking notice

Rebecca Kreutter

You know how, when you meet someone you’ve never seen before, you end up seeing her all over campus?

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Planned authenticity

Planned authenticity

Isabella Gomes

Before we even entered college, many advisers told us that if we had the opportunity to study abroad, take it, regardless of when or where it was.

OPINION | 09/17/2013

Our forgotten radical

James Di Palma-Grisi

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OPINION | 09/16/2013

Personal politics and the death star

Kinnari Shah

“Randal Graves on the construction of the second Death Star: “All right, look— you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia— this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits.

OPINION | 09/16/2013

The plight of the unpaid intern

Shruthi Deivasigamani

For students who’ve either put off the summer job search for far too long, or have been sent back gentle rejection letter after gentle rejection letter, the month before finals was when desperation set in.

OPINION | 09/16/2013

Today I lived

Today I lived

Anthony Grafton

Last Sunday, I arrived at Princeton Junction around 9:30 at night. On the New York platform I recognized someone: a recent alumnus standing with a distinguished-looking couple, whom I took to be his parents.

OPINION | 09/15/2013

Here's to coming home

Here's to coming home

Prianka Misra

I woke up to the wails of power tools. Some days, their agonizing, heart-rattling whirring would crescendo, as if the drills were threatening to burst through my wall, through my headboard, into my head.

OPINION | 09/15/2013

The generation of social media

Shruthi Deivasigamani

One afternoon late in August, I got an email about a start-up company that was launching a Princeton branch for their new social media app.

OPINION | 09/12/2013

The real deal

The real deal

Ye Eun Charlotte Chun

If there’s anything Princeton has more of than free food, tiger puns and black bear warnings, it’s the opportunity for students to study abroad and immerse ourselves in a different culture.

OPINION | 09/12/2013

Laziness

Susannah Sharpless

My dad likes to tell the story of the time when, as my soccer coach, he instructed my team to run a lap.

OPINION | 09/11/2013

Fear of flying

Morgan Jerkins

Each summer, one of my best friends from Princeton and I discuss our goals for the upcoming year.

OPINION | 09/11/2013

The start-up bubble

Barbara Zhan

Right now, it seems like the biggest, buzziest business opportunities are coming from the start-up world.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

What's wrong with cheating?

What's wrong with cheating?

Benjamin Dinovelli

Sophocles once said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating” — but then again, Sophocles didn’t go to Harvard. A recent survey released by The Harvard Crimson, profiling the incoming freshman class of 2017, found that about 42 percent of incoming freshmen have admitted to cheating on a homework assignment.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

Making a dent in the world

Rebecca Kreutter

This summer, my mom, one of my brothers and I went to see “Jobs.” As we walked home, we talked about visionaries, the impact Steve Jobs had made on our daily lives, the pursuit of the product and the industries he had both created and destroyed.

OPINION | 09/10/2013

Opinion: Reunions and the Bubble

Reunions can appear like the epitome of Orange Bubble ambivalence and insularity. Thousands of alumni gather for what seems like the sole purpose of partying and reliving their youth, safely enclosed within the Princeton campus. And while Reunions can becriticized for its excess,it doesn’t perpetuate the Bubble as much as it may seem. In a lot of ways, Reunions bursts the Orange Bubble.

OPINION | 05/30/2013

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