Princeton University has one of the strangest academic calendars. Like, ever.
Facebook is still a business, and it exists to sell a product. When that product is our personal information, we should be even more wary of how that business is conducted.
Regarding “Scalia defends gay rights position” (Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012) and “Editorial: Self-scheduled exams” (Monday, Dec. 10, 2012)
So as these bleary-eyed writing students beg the clock to move more quickly toward 10 a.m., I can’t help but wonder how many will end up disappointed with their section. And how many of those will end up loving their class all the same? There may be quite a bit in a name. But there may be just as much in a professor not so well known, but just as impressive.
In our childishness and pettiness we have completely lost the purpose of sexual liberalization — to have fun, fulfilling and healthy sexual encounters or relationships defined on our own terms. Princeton: Just chill out and enjoy yourself. At a school where students often forget that socializing is singularly for fun, the “hookup culture” is equally mired by over-analysis, strategy and insecurity.
Nevertheless, our peer institutions — Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Brown in particular — churn out future professors and researchers in vastly greater quantities, relative populations considered. What is it about Princeton that turns people away from the idea of advanced degrees in academia?
From scholarships to travel, Princeton creates amazing opportunities and the opportunity to create amazing opportunities, and I keep being too chicken to take advantage of them. And as I talk to my friends here, my friends at other schools and my friends worried about applying to other schools, something becomes very obvious.
Schools such as Haverford, Caltech, Williams and Carleton already use self-scheduled exams, which students can choose to take during any one of multiple prescheduled sittings. Implementation of such a policy at Princeton would afford students greater flexibility, eliminate the need for take-homes, make exams fairer and decrease student stress.
The University picks us from a pool of supposedly talented, largely reliable, self-motivated people. We are repeatedly told we have the best minds and the best prospects. Yet, when we get to campus, we aren’t always trusted to look after ourselves. The administration must reverse its policy of social engineering.
We should be unafraid to defend the merit of chaste lifestyles over promiscuous ones. By encouraging our friends’ chastity, we can do them a great service. It is an act of love to help a friend quit hooking up.
The Board strongly advocates against the current proposals that increase the days for Thanksgiving break at the expense of fall break. Instead, we argue for the implementation of an academic calendar that would preserve fall break and extend Thanksgiving break by starting the academic year a few days earlier.
With the only prerequisites often being simply a single class or two in the department, what the humanities most powerfully provide is the individual freedom to follow your heart. And that, Princeton tells us, is what college is really about.
I think that women and men should make whatever choices work for them and their families. But if they do find that they need to stop working or work differently, then they should be able to get back on the track later.
With respect to newly founded clubs, the USG should also be sure to task individual representatives to observe the progress of the new group and comment on suggestions for potential improvement.
While I do not necessarily agree with President Tilghman’s statement that “anonymous debate is no debate at all,” I do believe that a debate, regardless of whether or not the participants are revealed or anonymous, should remain relevant so that the dialogue will not turn hateful. There’s a difference between attacking an issue and attacking a person — here’s where I believe Chen has made an error.
Like getting struck by lightning, mauled by a bear or biting into an oatmeal raisin cookie when you’re expecting chocolate chip, sexiling usually only exists dimly in the back of one’s mind.
I am more than willing — I am eager, I am hungry to sacrifice two weeks of summer vacation for a normal, stress-free winter break. Working through academics at Princeton frequently feels like wrestling with an enormous, invincible, many-headed monster. Winter break should be a respite, not the apex of the battle.
This week has been the first time at Princeton I’ve been paralyzed by stress. Not to say that I’ve never been overwhelmed here, but when I’ve been faced with encyclopedias of writing, mountains of reading or textbooks of problem sets before, my type-A self has kicked into overdrive making calendars and to-do lists, breaking large problems into tackleable chunks.
Most recently, the critique that piqued my interest out of the constant slew of condescension is the article “How to Live Without Irony.” The author uses hipsters to illustrate an epidemic of irony among today’s youth: the use of sarcasm and disingenuousness to shirk personal responsibility. It surprised me to learn the writer of a piece with such a pessimistic thesis about America’s young adults, Christy Wampole, is a Princeton professor. Her perspective is only representative of a narrow sample of contemporary culture and is therefore not indicative of the country as a whole, and certainly not of Princeton.
