Opinion

Avoiding the academic bottleneck

This semester, the computer science department decided to officially rescind the non-pass/D/fail designation for COS 126: General Computer Science, after instituting it for 126, COS 217: Introduction to Programming Systems and COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures last semester.

The equal of two evils

This past Saturday, as I was getting dressed to go out, I heard indecipherable shouts coming from outside (call it luck of the first floor). I was waiting for my own pickups, so naturally my roommates and I dashed to the common room window to get a better look.

Divided attention

It was around midnight one Saturday over the summer, and I was piled in a friend’s living room with about five other people.

Lancing the bubble

In sufficiently complex economies (i.e., anything but a colonial "cottage industry"), the essential element is specialization — an electrician might not know how to cultivate plants, but this doesn’t practically worsen the quality of the person as an electrician.

Dorm of doom

Privacy through transparency

The summer before freshman year, I was excited to receive my email address andsee my name placed beside the email subdomain “@princeton.edu”: a confirmation that my acceptance wasn’t some mistake by the Office of Admission.

Correcting the mistake of Dean West

This October will mark the 100thanniversary of the creation of the Graduate College. In 1913, Dean Andrew Fleming West won a battle against then-University President Woodrow Wilson, who had fought to have a newly created graduate program centered within the undergraduate-dominated central campus.

Letter to the Editor: Why no Bible used at Eisgruber's installation?

It was with surprise, and a great deal of sadness, that I read "No Bible would be used in the Sept.

The cost of the Pequod

One of the first things students do upon arriving on campus is purchase their course books. Fortunately, Labyrinth Books has simplified this process by streamlining how University students order their course readings as well as by offering an annual University discount.

Honor

"I pledge my honor that I have not violated the Honor Code during this examination." Since the beginning of my short Princeton career, I have written these words on every single examination I have ever taken.

Outside the Bubble: A practical take on Syria

In these pages, we aim to print pieces that engage with and comment on our campus, our community and our lives as students.

Cartoon: Fish in the sea

Cartoon: Watch and wait ... and wait ...

Veterans add to 'diversity'

By Uwe Reinhardt Princeton University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Diversitydelivered its final report to the public a few days ago.

The merits of fresh blood

Toward the end of last year, as most of us were trying to figure out which classes to take this semester, the subject of good and bad professors often came up when my friends and I were trying to choose courses.

Merging extremes: “Nuevo” East Asia

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.

What we can learn from MOOCs

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.

Taking notice

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

Planned authenticity

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.

Installation