Each summer, one of my best friends from Princeton and I discuss our goals for the upcoming year.
Right now, it seems like the biggest, buzziest business opportunities are coming from the start-up world.
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.
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.
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.
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Princetonians tend to be a motivated bunch. A quick glance at our resumes would be enough to convince anyone of that.
Lawnparties is among Princeton?s most beloved traditions. At the beginning and end of every school year, thousands of undergraduates and guests take to Prospect Avenue for a day of music, preppy clothing and community in a truly one-of-a-kind event.
That single line of blue and grey text on my Facebook profile has been bothering me of late. It sits just below the unaccountably past-tense ?Studied at Princeton University? and my ?work information? describing a seemingly ancient summer internship.
What was the most surprising/awesome/not awesome/unexpected etc. thing about Princeton this year? Bennett McIntosh: Irina Spalko, the villain in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, dies in one of the most CGI-heavy instances of “careful what you wish for” in film history.
In an especially dark section of a letter to his younger brother Zooey, J.D. Salinger?s Buddy Glass writes, ?I can?t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.? This sentiment is one I have come to understand in my final days at Princeton.
Majority: Last year, the University announced a new policy regarding Greek letter organizations on Princeton?s campus, forbidding freshmen to take part in any activity sanctioned through these organizations.
Similar to Lea Trusty, as she mentioned in her recent column ?I Miss Eye Contact,? I hail from a very small town.
I?ve always been an introvert, so big crowds of people, like those at Lawnparties this past weekend, are usually my worst nightmare.
Last month, high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss spurred national controversy when she penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled ?To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me.? Criticizing universities? emphasis on diversity, she mockingly wrote, ?Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it? and ?Sen.
Princeton is an institution that prides itself on tradition, but not all tradition is good. For years, Princeton has been plagued by issues relating to race and equality.
Regarding ?Philanthropist Kathryn Davis dies at 106? (Thursday, May 2, 2013)A note came to us from the Davis family that Ms. Kathryn W.
In a ?Dear Colleague" letter of April 4, 2011, a directive released by the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S.